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Red scarf girl : a memoir of the Cultural Revolution / Ji-li Jiang ; foreword by David Henry Hwang.

Jiang, Ji-li, (author.). Hwang, David Henry, 1957- (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

"It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything: brains, popularity, and a bright future in Communist China. Then China's leader, Mao Ze-dong, launches the Cultural Revolution--and Ji-li's world begins to fall apart. Over the next few years, people who were once her friends and neighbors turn on Ji-li and her family, forcing them to live in constant fear of arrest. And when her father is imprisoned, Ji-li faces the most difficult decision of her life: denounce him and turn her back on her family, or refuse to testify and sacrifice her future."--Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9780061667718 (paperback)
ISBN: 0061667714
ISBN: 9780064462082 (digest edition)
Physical Description: 301 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 17 cm
Edition: Revised Harper Trophy edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
Copyright: ©1997

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: 1997. Includes Q & A's with the author and discussion questions (pages 289-296).
Formatted Contents Note:	The liberation army dancer -- Destroy the Four Olds! -- Writing Da-zi-bao -- The Red successors -- Graduation -- The sound of drums and gongs -- The propaganda wall -- A search in passing -- Fate -- Junior high school at last -- Locked up -- An educable child -- Half-city Jiangs -- The class education exhibition -- The rice harvest -- The incriminating letter -- Sweeping.