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I produced this piece after I returned to the US from Yunnan, China, where I was studying and working last year. It relays my attempt to understand the relationships between government mandated family-planning in China, limited public sex education, and Chinese youth's changing values about sexuality. These are extremely complex and multi-faceted issues- in this piece I tried to narrow my focus by featuring one late-night interview I conducted with a young newlywed in a popular Kunming arcade.
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I produced this piece after I returned to the US from Yunnan, China, where I was studying and working last year. It relays my attempt to understand the relationships between government mandated family-planning in China, limited public sex education, and Chinese youth's changing values about sexuality. These are extremely complex and multi-faceted issues- in this piece I tried to narrow my focus by featuring one late-night interview I conducted with a young newlywed in a popular Kunming arcade.
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Review of Arcade GirlA good subject, thoughtfully presented. Several problems as the piece now stands: curious shifts in the script -- dense, multi-claused paragraphs in some places; nice, succinct phrasing in others. Outside elements -- the music and the interview -- are very slow in coming. Needs editing, down to perhaps 7 mins tops. Would be willing to listen again. |
Mary McGrath
Posted on April 28, 2004 at 09:31 AM | Permalink
Review of Arcade Girl
This piece could use tightening and the levels are off throughout. However, the reporter has done an interesting series of stories documenting social change in China. Her perspective is fairly fresh -- she doesn't have the voice of a journalist so much as that of a young woman who's worked and studied there. This piece, about the very limited amount of sex education available to young people in a country with an official family planning policy has an astonishing revelation in it -- namely that a fairly relied upon source of information for college students comes from porn movies and porn shops. I think these pieces smoothed out and cut down would be worth running as a series perhaps with a two-way with the reporter.