Barefoot Doctor: Mongolia Thirty Years Later

East is East

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Richmond resident Dan Zhang, who was born in China, was 17 years old when Mao's Cultural Revolution got under way and young people had to abandon school to be re-educated in the countryside. Dan chose Mongolia, where she became a "barefoot doctor." 30 years later, she returns to discover how life has changed on the vast steppes of Inner Mongolia.

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