
Living the Land
With both parents working far away, ten-year-old Chuang is being raised by extended family in his home village, where thousands of years of rural tradition collide with the socio-economic changes of China in the early 1990s.
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With both parents working far away, ten-year-old Chuang is being raised by extended family in his home village, where thousands of years of rural tradition collide with the socio-economic changes of China in the early 1990s.
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- Release date
- Dec 24, 2025
- Runtime
- 2h 12m
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- Language
- Mandarin
- Country
- China
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