Pulling No Punches, Boxing Gives Hope For Poor Rural Youth
Modern China is a place that revels in tradition, honor, and hard work – ethics that pervade the nationally sponsored youth boxing programs that have grown after the long running ban on the sport was lifted in 1986. In the southwest Sichuan Province of China, Huili County is one of the many rural communities being skimmed by selfless boxing coaches for young recruits who may one day become China’s Olympic competitors. Chinese Canadian director Yung Chang and a wholly Chinese film crew embedded themselves in the Huili countryside, sublimely documenting a group of fledgling boxers and their inspiring coaching staff as they brave through rigorous training, confer with fellow trainees, and confront their deeply conflicted, tobacco farming families.
China’s very first professional boxer, Qi Moxiang, turned to coaching after he resigned from the national team in 2004. Since then he has...
Modern China is a place that revels in tradition, honor, and hard work – ethics that pervade the nationally sponsored youth boxing programs that have grown after the long running ban on the sport was lifted in 1986. In the southwest Sichuan Province of China, Huili County is one of the many rural communities being skimmed by selfless boxing coaches for young recruits who may one day become China’s Olympic competitors. Chinese Canadian director Yung Chang and a wholly Chinese film crew embedded themselves in the Huili countryside, sublimely documenting a group of fledgling boxers and their inspiring coaching staff as they brave through rigorous training, confer with fellow trainees, and confront their deeply conflicted, tobacco farming families.
China’s very first professional boxer, Qi Moxiang, turned to coaching after he resigned from the national team in 2004. Since then he has...
- 7/5/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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