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To Have and Have Not
Thursday, July 31, 2003
Once the home of the "iron ricebowl" and social equality for all, today China has joined the ranks of the World Trade Organization. The country's new commitment to private enterprise and free markets is changing China radically. Last season WIDE ANGLE examined the enormous and dramatic upheaval China is undergoing, profiling people on the extremes of poverty and great wealth in the new China. One segment focused on Li Xiu Ying, a bright 13-year-old daughter of migrant workers who was barred from attending the Beijing public schools and forced to study in a makeshift, low-quality school for illegal migrants. Thanks to a WIDE ANGLE viewer who donated the cost of Li Xiu Ying's private school tuition, Li began her new life at an elite Beijing prep school earlier this year. In this updated version of the program, WIDE ANGLE chronicles this life-altering change and captures her first day of school.
 Watch a preview video:
Director Jon Alpert has received 11 National Emmy Awards for news and documentary programs, as well as three Columbia DuPont Awards and a Christopher. His public television films include CUBA: THE PEOPLE and CHINATOWN: IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA. In 1977 he became the first American television filmmaker to enter Vietnam since the end of the war. His work for NBC and HBO has won multiple awards.
 Read an interview with the filmmaker.
Photos: AP
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