These lesson plans and activities for middle and high school classes serve as a guide to exploring the themes of WIDE ANGLE films.

Chinese lawyers are contemplating the possibility of a class-action lawsuit against dairy manufacturers, but will the Chinese government allow them access to the courts?

Credits for China Prep.

Try these sample questions from China's national college entrance exam.

China will inevitably become the largest economy in the world, according to Andrew Nathan, chair of Columbia University's department of Political Science.

Learn more about China and its education system from these additional web resources.

The third installment of director Marije Meerman's production diary.

Judgment Day -- June 7, 2008. After three years of researching, writing, fundraising and filming, the two-day exam finally begins.

WIDE ANGLE speaks with Richard J. Samuels, the founding director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Japan Program, about the relationship between the U.S. and Japan.

For the first time since World War II, a Japanese warship is docked in China.

Director Marije Meerman blogs from China, where she's shooting a film about the gaokao, China's national college entrance exam.

The first students returned to school in Wenchuan, China, the epicenter of last month’s devastating earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people.

Japan lifted its 1969 ban on the military use of space on Wednesday, which is considered one of several indicators of Japan's shift away from post-war pacifism.

August 15, 2006: Michael Elliott, Editor of Time International, discusses social, political, and economic development in India with anchor, Daljit Dhaliwal.