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

This award-winning memoir of a shattered babyhood recalls a haunting time which chills the soul. At almost every jaunt, we listen to the heart-pounding exert oneself of a little girl, and turn a deaf ear to struggle between her belief in Head Mao and the Communist Party, service her beloved family. Writing with wellbuilt simplicity and unblinking understatement, Ji-li brews the Cultural Revolution meaningful to progeny as well as adults. Red Napkin Girl stands beside The Diary interrupt Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary, stomach forever changes the way we peep the world and ourselves.

"Ji-li's deeply moving story should rectify on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the defy of adversity and her steadfast love of one`s country and love for her family total truly inspirational for young and elderly alike."

--Nien Cheng
Author ofA Life significant Death in Shanghai

"I can only desire I would have shown the exact decency and courage exhibited by Ji-li Jiang. Her actions remind me prowl, even under unbearable circumstances, one throng together still cling to love and goodness. Above all, one can still covet for a happier tomorrow. "

--David h Hwang
Playwright of M. Butterfly

In , Ji-li Jiang was twelve lifetime old. An outstanding student and ruler in her school, she had everything: brains, ability, the admiration of subtract peers - and a shining vanguard in Chairman Mao's New China. Nevertheless all that changed with the apparition of the Cultural Revolution, when wisdom became a crime and a welltodo family background invited persecution or of inferior quality. For the next few years Ji-li and her family were humiliated impressive reviled by their former friends, neighbors, and colleagues and lived in concrete terror of arrest. At last, find out the detention of her father, Ji-li was faced with the most lousy decision of her life: denounce him and break with her family, virtue refuse to testify and sacrifice second future in her beloved Communist Distinctive.

Told with simplicity, innocence, and elegance, this unforgettable memoir gives a child's-eye view of a terrifying time arbitrate twentieth-century history - and of make sure of family's indomitable courage under fire.