The film series is free and open to the public.

A film by Zhou Hao; China, 2009; 114 minutes (Mandarin and Henan Dialect with English subtitles). Filmed with unprecedented access to a Communist Party leader, investigative filmmaker Zhou Hao offers a startlingly candid look inside Chinese politics at the local level.

Hailed by international press as an exceptional work of investigative filmmaking, "The Transition Period" captures the daily life of a Chinese official with incredible ground-level detail. With boastfully candid interviews from Guo and fly-on-the-wall coverage of closed-door dealings, Zhou lays bare the unsavory dynamics within China's top-down power structures. Penetrating in scope yet objective in its approach, "The Transition Period" reveals the conflicting forces shaping China's path to prosperity.