China is economically chasing America and arming up. At the same time, Chinese economists began to point out that the social costs of growing exports and urbanization could be greater than the post-Tiananmen trauma.

Read the interview by Krytyka Polityczna (in Polish only).

Although in today's fast-growing China, education is geared toward producing competitive and productive workers, not all Chinese accept such a system. For many of them, apparent comforts are synonymous with an inner emptiness, the remedy for which they seek in Confucianism. ""Confucian Dream," available on VOD.MDAG.PL tells the story of individual's struggle for an identity suppressed by the system.

CONFUCIAN DREAM, dir. Mijie Li

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