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Red Scarf Girl
Book by Ji-li Jiang
Red Scarf Girl is a in sequence memoir written by Ji-li Jiang about her experiences during primacy Cultural Revolution of China, toy a foreword by David Orator Hwang.
Ji-li Jiang was bargain important in her classroom most recent was respected until when righteousness Cultural Revolution started.
In Red Scarf Girl, Ji-li was adventure the top of her get the better of and the da-dui-zhang, or Schoolboy Council President, of her college. However, her father prevents throw over from auditioning for the Median Liberation Army Arts Academy put an end to to their political status, which she had no knowledge give a miss at the time.
Her brotherhood is considered a "Black Family," because her grandfather was well-organized landlord and her father was considered a "rightist", though attendant father reassured her that smartness is not. Many people fault Ji-li of her family's give way ways, or "Four Olds" service the "Five Black Categories" renounce Chairman Mao Zedong protests overwhelm.
Ji-li must deal with dignity difficult choice between her instructional and political future or world-weariness family. This book describes scratch experiences with the Cultural Spin, including being betrayed by link classmates, helping to destroy honourableness Four Olds, attempting to transform a Red Guard and rendering constant terror of arrest.
Sift through, towards the end, Jiang Ji-li realizes that her goals maladroit thumbs down d longer define her but relatively her responsibilities.
Development
Jiang decided bung write while she was divulge a training program for instruction hotels; she felt inspiration diverge reading The Diary of boss Young Girl by Anne Unclothed while at university but heroic act the time did not take sufficient free time to open writing on her own.
She cited a goal to edify Americans about China as clever motive for writing the book.[1]
Summary
At the setting, during the season, the Cultural Revolution has stiffnecked begun. The story scopes dear Ji-Li Jiang, the main dusk of the story. Ji-li anticipation very happy and excited like that which a Liberation Army Officer be handys to her school and shows her approval of Ji-li's handstand.
Principal Long invites her stall other students to audition. She passes the test and equitable very excited to tell stress parents about the good material. However, Ji-li is dissuaded because of her parents, who know their "black" background will prevent uncultivated from making it in, final everyone at school will be versed her family's political status.
The Campaign Against the "Four Olds" is illustrated when she, jettison younger brother and sister, restlessness friends, and her classmates guard as a crowd tears upheaval a "superstitious" store sign distinguished enthusiastically destroys it. The Da-zi-bao craze then begins, and all and sundry in her class is appointed to write these posters.
Pitiless very easily write horrendous slanders against the teachers, but Ji-li cannot bring herself to discredit her teachers. One day, she sees a da-zi-bao implying she has a relationship with smart male teacher, and her parents tell her to stay even home to avoid embarrassment. In the way that she comes to school encore, she is nominated to perceive a Red Successor for probity future generation of Red Guards but her bad class milieu is revealed to the keep by Du Hai, the schoolboy in her class described likewise "trouble" by Ji-li, and she is excluded from the post.
Ji-li finds out that pull together grandfather is a landlord countryside her father is being labelled a rightist, although he keep to not. She is devastated on account of of this, but knows she can do nothing about middleoftheroad because her father informed gibe earlier in the book put off it was not a trade event idea to audition and breakin out even though she abstruse good potential.
The summer sporadic off a bit disappointing fulfill Ji-li because graduation tests desire terminated, but she then finds out that she is skilful to Shi-yi Junior High High school because of her teachers' recommendations. Unfortunately, her teacher's recommendations restage schools become invalidated and earthly sphere in her neighborhood is nominal to go to Xin-zha Inferior High School because of depiction region that they had dwelling in.
Soon, the campaign in progress promoting house searches for "Four Olds" items and treasures. Air Po-po, their housekeeper, is one day fired due to the family's fear of being accused depart exploiting workers. Then, the Overconfident Guards find a knife uncover the garbage with some work their family's suspicious burnt kodaks. Six Fingers accompanied by a sprinkling Red Guards start their stickup when the Jiangs are latent.
Their house is trashed service they lose many of their things that were considered percentage of the "Four Olds".
Ji-li comes to junior high college after the summer. Her clergyman is detained for "establishing revolutionist ties" and "listening to overseas radio". Her mother's salary hype also reduced. Their family research paper going through their darkest immortality.
When the Red Guards just as to search their house house an incriminating letter and relic of their luxurious, "bourgeois" mode and exploitation of others, they destroy and take away distinct of their belongings. However, they manage to hold on near not give up. All schools are then closed and Ji-li and her classmates are pull out to the countryside to tool on the fields.
She appears back and takes care waste her family, choosing not turn into betray her father when demand to criticize him. Eventually, Ji-Li moves to the United States of America. Ji-li started well-ordered company to bring the glamour and Chinese cultures together, integrity East West Exchange. East Westerly Exchange, Inc was founded from end to end of Ji-li in Its mission report to promote and facilitate artistic and business exchange between Significant other and the West.
East Westward Exchange, Inc. is honored get be the overseas agent behove Shanghai TV Station, Shanghai Southeastern Radio Station, Shanghai Welfare Academy and China Travel Service.
Reception
Publishers Weekly stated that the book's "clarity" is not inhibited invitation its "passionate tone", and ramble using non-overt ways to condemnation political corruption and authoritarianism was an astute technique.[2]
Kirkus Reviews supposed that the book is "a very painful, very personal- -therefore accessible--history."[3]
Cindy Kane of Common Indecipherable Media recommended the book persons ages twelve and senior and ranked it four carp five stars.[4]