Will the so-called Chinese Dream come true for this 18-year-old from the country’s 260 million migrant workers?
Chinese Dreamer follows the 18-year-old Wanghao as he travels from his rural farm to Beijing to help support his struggling family. A few months later he is there, only to find the big city unwelcoming and realise he has little hope for a future beyond working menial jobs and sending money home. Wanghao dreams of a better life, but with little education and few skills, he struggles to envision something other than difficult, thankless times ahead.
http://aeon.co/video/society/chinese-dreamer-the-life-of-a-migrant-worker-in-beijing-aeon/
Published in Aeon Video which streams contemporary and classic short documentaries, exploring the intersections between nature, culture and ideas.
Multimedia by Sharron Lovell and Tom Wang.
Sharron Lovell is a visual journalist and educator. Currently based in Beijing, she is also the course leader for a Beijing-based, U.K. accredited Master’s program in Multimedia Journalism.
Tom Wang hails from central China, where he studied multimedia journalism. He has always been a music and film lover and while studying in University discovered documentary film.