Ji-li Jiang

Revolution made Ji Li, the main character in the book, think about changing her name to avoid humiliation. She wanted to change her to change her identity and get accepted by the Red Guards and the working class: “Wait!

revolution people were put into categories based on their family’s political history. Ji Li’s family is in the black category, members of the black category are said to be enemies of the revolution. Class struggle is a major part of the revolution which is what makes her perspective so powerful and relevant. C. Information about the author, background, other writings, biographical information. Ji Li Jiang was born in Shanghai, China in 1954. She is a graduate of Shanghai University and University

Scarf Girl, a memoir by Ji-Li Jiang, tells the story of her childhood during the Cultural Revolution, only colored by the innocence and naivety of her youth. This honesty, coming with being a memoir as opposed to literary fiction enhances the memoir's authenticity, while its realness, as it wasn't an expository essay, makes the story's message more powerful. As a memoir, Red Scarf Girl comes with the connotation that the events portrayed within the story are factual, that Jiang isn't making up or exaggerating

were nowhere to be seen., Ji-li was at the top of her class and the or Student Council President, of her school. However, her father prevents her from auditioning for the Central Liberation Army Arts Academy due to their political status, which she had no knowledge of at the time. Her family is considered a "Black Family", because her grandfather was a and her father was considered a "rightist", (though her father reassured her that he is not. Many people accuse Ji-li of her family's old ways,

been embellished or removed. The memoir was also written twenty years after her experience so it may not be accurate. Her purpose was to publish an autobiographical novel that highlighted her struggle during and after the Cultural Revolution. Ji-li Jiang, on the other hand, was a child during the Cultural Revolution. Red Scarf Girl is a memoir published in 1997. The origin of her memoir is that it was published in America during the late 90’s, in English. Her value is that she also lived in Shanghai

At that point in the 60s era, black and white TV screens, now different tints of color. People of today have life handed to them rather than, earning or working for it back in the 1960s. What’s the difference between the two? The music, social norms, and transportation have changed since then. First of all, music is totally different. With today’s music, everyone is talking so fast I can’t keep track. Back in the 1960s music was hard to get played while you’re going somewhere. For instance in The

movement in China that included the restructuring of the military and education system. During this, the People’s Republic of China was established and the Chinese Communist Party was introduced. In the historical memoir, Red Scarf Girl, the author, Ji-li Jiang writes about her own childhood during the Cultural Revolution, when many changes were made to her and her family’s everyday lives. She recounts on her personal struggles and her family’s hardships under the rule of

The Chinese Cultural Revolution The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, beginning as a campaign targeted at removing Chairman Mao Zedong's political opponents, was a time when practically every aspect of Chinese society was in pandemonium. From 1966 through 1969, Mao encouraged revolutionary committees, including the red guards, to take power from the Chinese Communist party authorities of the state. The Red Guards, the majority being young adults, rose up against their teachers, parents

unfortunately reading these books is often pushed aside to focus on more interesting hobbies, and students are left to pray that sparknotes has a summary. In ninth grade, however, a new year’s resolution committed me to reading The Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang. The book is a memoir about the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and the book quickly became one of my favorites. After finishing the book for the first time, I decided to research the politics behind the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and that led into

Li Yuxia in her Betrayal and Redemption in The Kite Runner (2008) interpreters the novel from the perspectives of betrayal and redemption, and discusses the contradiction between friendship and betrayal under the background of Afghanistan society, then