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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperTrophy, 1998, c1997.Edition: 1st Harper Trophy edDescription: xvii, 285 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0064462080
  • 9780064462082
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.05/6$221
LOC classification:
  • DS778.7 .J53 1998
Contents:
Liberation army dancer -- Destroy the four olds! -- Writing Da-zi-bao -- Red successors -- Graduation -- Sound of drums and gongs -- Propaganda wall -- Search in passing -- Fate -- Junior high school at last -- Locked up -- Educable child -- Half-city Jiangs -- Class eduction exhibition -- Rice harvest -- Incriminating letter -- Sweeping -- Epilogue -- Glossary.
Summary: An outstanding student and much admired leader of her class, Ji-Li Jiang was poised for a shining future in the Communist party until the Cultural Revolution of 1966. Told with simplicity, innocence and grace, this unforgettable memoir gives a child's eye view of a terrifying time in 20th-century history--and of one family's indomitable courage under fire.
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Liberation army dancer -- Destroy the four olds! -- Writing Da-zi-bao -- Red successors -- Graduation -- Sound of drums and gongs -- Propaganda wall -- Search in passing -- Fate -- Junior high school at last -- Locked up -- Educable child -- Half-city Jiangs -- Class eduction exhibition -- Rice harvest -- Incriminating letter -- Sweeping -- Epilogue -- Glossary.

An outstanding student and much admired leader of her class, Ji-Li Jiang was poised for a shining future in the Communist party until the Cultural Revolution of 1966. Told with simplicity, innocence and grace, this unforgettable memoir gives a child's eye view of a terrifying time in 20th-century history--and of one family's indomitable courage under fire.

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