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Two Chinese Schools

From: RadioActive Youth Media
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How China looks to students in two Chinese Schools near Seattle, WA. Read the full description.

Default-piece-image-1 To most people, Chinese people are, well, simply Chinese. Even with the many provinces and dialects, they are classified as one single ethnicity. However, politics can also define identity. The longstanding rift between Taiwan and Mainland China crops up at two Chinese schools in Bellevue. Cynthia Chang takes a look.

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To most people, Chinese people are, well, simply Chinese. Even with the many provinces and dialects, they are classified as one single ethnicity. However, politics can also define identity. The longstanding rift between Taiwan and Mainland China crops up at two Chinese schools in Bellevue. Cynthia Chang takes a look.

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Review of Two Chinese Schools

This is definitely a high school piece about an interesting and little talked about subject--the differences between being Chinese and Taiwanese. The narration is roughly recorded and the narrator still needs some experience in the vocal booth. Some of the actualities at the beginning sound better than the narration. Some of the actualities in the last half, are recorded in an open large space and the voice has reverb on it. There are jump cuts and ambience clipping throughout the piece. This is unfortunately distracting from the content of the piece which again is something that most mainstream Americans know little about. I would recommend re-doing the narration and cleaning up the clipping and jumpy editing. It would be worth doing to make this piece work for broadcast.