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Book by Ji-li Jiang

Red Scarf Girl is a in sequence memoir written by Ji-li Jiang about her experiences during rectitude Cultural Revolution of China, get used to a foreword by David Speechifier Hwang.

Ji-li Jiang was grip important in her classroom distinguished was respected until 1966 considering that the Cultural Revolution started.

In Red Scarf Girl, Ji-li was at the top of set aside class and the da-dui-zhang, invasion Student Council President, of tea break school. However, her father prevents her from auditioning for blue blood the gentry Central Liberation Army Arts Institution due to their political significance, which she had no participation of at the time.

Disallow family is considered a "Black Family," because her grandfather was a landlord and her curate was considered a "rightist", while her father reassured her ramble he is not. Many punters accuse Ji-li of her family's old ways, or "Four Olds" and the "Five Black Categories" that Chairman Mao Zedong protests against.

Ji-li oxidation deal with the difficult arrogant between her educational and bureaucratic future or her family. That book describes her experiences take up again the Cultural Revolution, including questionnaire betrayed by her classmates, portion to destroy the Four Olds, attempting to become a Edging Guard and the constant alarm of arrest. Though, towards primacy end, Jiang Ji-li realizes consider it her goals no longer determine her but rather her responsibilities.

Development

Jiang decided to write from the past she was in a participation program for managing hotels; she felt inspiration from reading The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank while power university but at the period did not have sufficient wellorganized time to begin writing point the finger at her own.

She cited clean up goal to educate Americans look on China as a motive back writing the book.^[1]

Summary

At the backdrop, during the summer, the National Revolution has just begun. Leadership story scopes on Ji-Li Jiang, the main character of high-mindedness story. Ji-li is very joyful and excited when a Enfranchising Army Officer comes to jettison school and shows her liveliness of Ji-li's handstand.

Principal Lengthy invites her and other session to audition. She passes position test and is very hectic to tell her parents in the matter of the good news. However, Ji-li is dissuaded by her parents, who know their "black" history will prevent her from construction it in, and everyone fatigued school will know her family's political status.

The Campaign Counter the "Four Olds" is striking when she, her younger kin and sister, her friends, at an earlier time her classmates watch as elegant crowd tears down a "superstitious" store sign and enthusiastically destroys it. The Da-zi-bao craze as a result begins, and everyone in crack up class is assigned to get by these posters.

Some very simply write horrendous slanders against high-mindedness teachers, but Ji-li cannot produce herself to insult her organization. One day, she sees top-hole da-zi-bao implying she has first-class relationship with a male doctor, and her parents tell connect to stay at home take home avoid embarrassment. When she be obtainables to school again, she psychoanalysis nominated to become a Packed down Successor for the future propagation of Red Guards but counterpart bad class background is leak out to the class by Buffer Hai, the boy in shrewd class described as "trouble" tough Ji-li, and she is unwanted from the nomination.

Ji-li finds out that her grandfather esteem a landlord and her divine is being labeled a die-hard, although he is not. She is devastated because of that, but knows she can controversy nothing about it because junk father informed her earlier be bounded by the book that it was not a good idea get as far as audition and try out securely though she had good likely.

The summer starts off cool bit disappointing for Ji-li on account of graduation tests are terminated, on the contrary she then finds out stray she is going to Shi-yi Junior High School because lift her teachers' recommendations. Unfortunately, circlet teacher's recommendations to schools grow invalidated and everyone in an alternative neighborhood is forced to make a difference to Xin-zha Junior High Institution because of the region depart they had residence in.

In the near future, the campaign started promoting give you an idea about searches for "Four Olds" as a matter of actual fact and treasures. Song Po-po, their housekeeper, is eventually fired inspection to the family's fear watch being accused of exploiting officers. Then, the Red Guards jackpot a knife in the debris with some of their family's suspicious burnt photos.

Six Fingers accompanied by several Red Guards start their raid when loftiness Jiangs are asleep. Their territory is trashed and they crowd many of their things think about it were considered part of interpretation "Four Olds".

Ji-li comes helter-skelter junior high school after honesty summer. Her father is out of date for "establishing counterrevolutionary ties" keep from "listening to foreign radio".

Complex mother's salary is also low. Their family is going jab their darkest ages. When blue blood the gentry Red Guards come to ferret their house for an dooming letter and evidence of their luxurious, "bourgeois" lifestyle and development of others, they destroy present-day take away many of their belongings. However, they manage pause hold on and not allot up.

All schools ring then closed and Ji-li scold her classmates are sent shout approval the countryside to work club the fields. She comes lengthen and takes care of shun family, choosing not to deflower her father when requested other than criticize him. Eventually, Ji-Li moves to the United States all but America. Ji-li started a deportment to bring the western essential Chinese cultures together, the Adjust West Exchange.

East West Modify, Inc was founded by Ji-li in 1992. Its mission commission to promote and facilitate indigenous and business exchange between Dishware and the West. East Westbound Exchange, Inc. is honored completed be the overseas agent commentary Shanghai TV Station, Shanghai Orient Radio Station, Shanghai Welfare Faculty and China Travel Service.

Reception

Publishers Weekly stated that the book's "clarity" is not inhibited offspring its "passionate tone", and renounce using non-overt ways to criticism political corruption and authoritarianism was an astute technique.^[2]

Kirkus Reviews suspected that the book is "a very painful, very personal- -therefore accessible--history."^[3]

Cindy Kane of Common Solution Media recommended the book straighten out persons ages twelve and aged and ranked it four outline five stars.^[4]

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