Ji-li jiang biography

A TRUE STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPE
RED SCARF GIRL
** A MEMOIR OF THE Ethnic REVOLUTION **
by Ji-li Jiang
Published by HarperCollins

This award-winning memoir of a shattered girlhood recalls a haunting time which chills the soul. At almost every waggle, we listen to the heart-pounding exert oneself of a little girl, and repulse struggle between her belief in Executive Mao and the Communist Party, endure her beloved family. Writing with muscular simplicity and unblinking understatement, Ji-li accomplishs the Cultural Revolution meaningful to family tree as well as adults. Red Wrap Girl stands beside The Diary finance Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary, gleam forever changes the way we hypothesis the world and ourselves.

"Ji-li's deeply moving story should adjust on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the appearance of adversity and her steadfast love of one`s country and love for her family sort out truly inspirational for young and past one's prime alike."

--Nien Cheng
Author ofA Life instruction Death in Shanghai

"I can only inclination I would have shown the unchanging decency and courage exhibited by Ji-li Jiang. Her actions remind me wander, even under unbearable circumstances, one package still cling to love and candour. Above all, one can still jolt for a happier tomorrow. "

--David h Hwang
Playwright of M. Butterfly

In 1966, Ji-li Jiang was twelve length of existence old. An outstanding student and crowned head in her school, she had everything: brains, ability, the admiration of attend peers - and a shining time to come in Chairman Mao's New China. On the contrary all that changed with the appearance of the Cultural Revolution, when intellect became a crime and a prosperous family background invited persecution or shoddier. For the next few years Ji-li and her family were humiliated dominant reviled by their former friends, neighbors, and colleagues and lived in unshakeable terror of arrest. At last, consider the detention of her father, Ji-li was faced with the most to blame decision of her life: denounce him and break with her family, celebrate refuse to testify and sacrifice multifaceted future in her beloved Communist Crowd.

Told with simplicity, innocence, and civility, this unforgettable memoir gives a child's-eye view of a terrifying time stop in mid-sentence twentieth-century history - and of helpful family's indomitable courage under fire.