– “I was looking at those old photos, And suddenly realized: We are all grown-ups now.” – “We grow together.” – “I was innocent and certain. Now I am wiser but unsure.” From poster memo made by Class of 2017 Previous Next Sunshine shadows boulevards, willow greets chirping birds. Theme as “Shuiwe ∞ Antuo Shan”, the Alumni […]
Alumni Christmas Party-Cherishing about Shuiwei & Gathering in Antuo Shan Read More »
Recently, XINHUANET and INSIGHT jointly held the 12th XINHUANET Education Forum·International Education Sub-forum, and released “the 2021 China Top 100 International Schools Report”. The targets of this assessment are schools that can provide international education models for their students. Including private international schools which set international courses in mainland for students to study in overseas
SCIE Ranked 2nd in 2021 China Outstanding International Schools Read More »
Greatbay_SZ High School Top10 We are GreatBay_SZ, a group of secondary school students. We come from a range of high schools, including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Guangdong and Hong Kong. As teenagers with diverse personalities and hobbies, science, especially synthetic biology is a common interest shared among us. We believe in a bright future and hope to explore and
SCIE Teams Won High School Top10 and Gold Medals in 2021 iGEM Read More »
On November 14, 2021, the annual International Genetic Engineering Machine Competition iGEM drew to an end. SCIE students Yiyun Wu (Fion) and Peijia Lai (Peggie)’s team LINKS_China won the world championship in the high school group. Fion acted as the administrative captain of the team and played a leading role in the team. Peggie, as
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–To Observe Company Culture and Learn How a Real Business has Rose to Prominence Tencent Holdings, one of the most innovative and prominent IT companies of China, has long been a trailblazer and an inspiration for many aspiring entrepreneurs at SCIE and around the world. From being just a small company formed by a group
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Shenzhen College of Education held its annual Model United Nations (SCIEMUN) Conference last November 5-7, 2021 in Antuo Hill Campus. It was two and a half days of amazing diplomatic simulation experiences where delegates were tasked to solve global issues through collaboration, research, drafting, lobbying, and debate. The delegates passed two ‘resolutions’ for their assigned
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Shenzhen Sports Meetings, organized by the government, was considered one of the most famous sports competitions. Rowing was one of its subjects. On October 25th, more than 200 participants from various districts, including Nanshan, Futian, Baoan, Yantian, and Guangming got involved in the race. They were arranged into three age groups: U13(under 13), U15(under 15),
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Cambridge International Exam Results are the important factors for A Level students to apply for the universities. Therefore， the international exams held by Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) are the most authoritative exams set for students in the global IGCSE and A Level system, which directly reflect the students’ academic competitiveness and the quality of
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Conguratulations to our students Moris and Logan won Global Round Frist Prize with their work How to help teenagers against “body shame” in China Thinks Big (CTB). Except that Logan also won the Second Prize in individual competition. Name Topic Award Other Awards 20704 Austin Song Tree Hole-a mental platfom to heal depresssion National Round-Third
China Thinks Big 2020 ｜ Great Big Congratulations to Our Students Read More »
As an increasing number of students start showing interest for Economics in and outside classrooms, asking for recommended reading beyond the syllabus, coming to discuss their extended reading with teachers, we feel it’s time to set up the Economist Reading Club. Great thanks to the support from Jack Li and other senior students from A2
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My essay is on the recent development of China’s mental health care system and how it can help address this question. Though, I actually parried the question raised by the prompt, and I did not in the end emphasise too much that more care should be devoted to the socially vulnerable. Rather, I intended to underscore the complexity and ambiguity in any employment of these two notions — “socially vulnerable” and “responsibility” — in the concrete working of society. Through my study I discovered that the train of legislative efforts made in the 1980s to 2000s to legally recognise, to enhance public knowledge of, and to erect new asylums for, “the mentally ill,” in fact coincided spatiotemporally with government efforts in putting new agendas of foreign policies and city development to work. Thus, the recent development of China’s mental health care, from scratch to full maturity, is not solely the consequence of “humanitarian effort,” but also of some other ulterior motives. In my conclusion, I hinted that any answer to this question would entail empirical investigation into the concrete working of social institutions, and depending on the nature of this “socially vulnerable” group, claims of “responsibility” may be leveraged as veils for other purposes.
Before starting my research I did not by then have a well-formed hypothesis, but I did have Michel Foucault’s intriguing study on madness in mind. Due to the rather peculiar nature of the object of my study, I was not able to apply the sociological theories (Marxism, Functionalism, e.g.) I learnt in class to my own research. I must thank my sociology teacher for his encouragement and provision of many textbook resources and classical studies done in the field of mental health care. In addition to that, he prepared a statement of the school for my application to conduct short interviews at a local mental health hospital — this application, however, though quite expectedly, sank into oblivion — without his help this project would be very difficult.
I made a documentary “The Definition” about the situation of elderly in Shenzhen to enter this competition. As I have some previous knowledge in filmmaking, learning from TBU studio, I though it would be meaningful if I combined my filmmaking skills with sociology knowledge. In the meanwhile, after learning the very first chapter of sociology, The Family, I found out that the situation of elderly in the UK is different from that of elderly in Shenzhen. For instance, elderly have the responsibility taking care of their grandchildren and dance in the park for entertainment is distinctive in China. Therefore, I decided to make a documentary to record the interesting culture.
I learnt a lot during the preparation for the competition. I learned a lot about how to carry out an individual primary research when I was filming “The Definition”, which helps a lot in my current sociology study. Also, I understood sociology theories better. For instance, postmodernism used to be only a vague theoretical perspective for me, yet it amazed me knowing that elderly people participate actively in public activities can be considered as view of postmodernism.
Most importantly, I realized filmmaking can make some impacts on people, portraying problems of society. Experience of BSA opened my eyes and led me rethink about my future major in college. I want use my skills and knowledge to help more people, so I will probably try a major with humanity and filmmaking combined instead of pursuing the dream of being an artist alone.
Learning sociology gives me a new perspective in seeing how the world works, and it also lets me care more about the vulnerability in the society. Thank you to my sociology teacher, Richard Driscoll, who gave me lots of inspiration such as filming the dancing in the park, which is interesting to British people, and recommenced lots of sociological books about the elderly.
By listening to his advice, “The Definition” eventually divides into two parts: one is about the elderly in nursing home and the other is about people dancing in the park. Also, there is many interviews in the documentary to give a more well-rounded perspective.
I would like to thank my Math teacher Michael Jin and my friend Franchaska, who helped me with the voice over. Also, thanks to my family members, especially my dear grandmother, who gave me lots of insights related to the issue of elderly.
I made this documentary just before the deadline, thus it’s not so perfect. I’ll probably elaborate some shots and reedit it in the future.
If you are interested, you can click the link below and watch it.
Teng Xun Video：https://v.qq.com/x/page/u0862usad2v.html
Bilibili：https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38188271?from=search&seid=10452775157822232568
