 "Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom" allows viewers to meet a man who experienced life directly under Mao's rule and lived through the Cultural Revolution, issues which most people from the Western hemisphere are not familiar with.Israel Epstein and the director's father (Mr. Levaco senior) grew up in China, where they experienced comfortable lifestyles afforded to well off families from Western nations, in the time period before the Communists began to govern.But many of the indigenous Chinese residents were very poor compared to the Europeans that settled in the nation for an extended time period.