Red Scarf Girl

A Memoir Of The Cultural Revolution

BY JI-LI JIANG

Brief Description:
This is the true story of one family's courage and determination. Ji-li Jiang was twelve years old in 1966, when Mao launched the Cultural Revolution in China. An outstanding student she seemed poised for a shining future. Now intelligence became a crime and her family background invited persecution. For the next 3 years Ji-li and her family were humiliated and reviled by their former friends, neighbors, and colleagues and lived in constant terror of attack. Then with the detention of her father, Ji-li was faced with the most dreadful decision of her life: denounce him and break with her family, or refuse to testify against him and sacrifice her future in her beloved Communist Party.

Harper 1997 284 PP. Paper

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