Preface The preface of Red Lady is about the life of Geely before the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. Prior to this, her family was very stable. Gilly wears a red scarf on her neck and is a wonderful girl who is highly evaluated at school and also a class leader. When the Cultural Revolution began, when Li Li was 12 years old. Gilly is very good at school and I am very successful. One day she was called to the principal office. People's Liberation Army job who came to the school to pick some of the children for the central Liberation Army Academy of Fine Arts; and, Gilly was chosen in order to attend school.
The title of the red scarf is a symbol of childhood of Jiang Jili. Like many people, she grew up with the Mao Zedong and cultural prostate revolution. The red scarf is a symbol of this revolution, I am wearing it, I believe that all classes gather for common interests. Even if her father was accused of father's faith long ago, the Jiang could not accept the possibility that Mao Zedong might not be able to meet everything he promised.
Among the girls wearing red scarves, Gilly is the leader of her class and is the president of her school's student union. However, for the sake of her political status, her father, she was hampered by her to audition for the central Liberation Army Academy of Arts did not know at the time. Her family is considered a "black family". Because, her father even though does not guarantee her, her grandfather is a landlord, her father is because is considered "rights advocates". Many people have accused Geely house of the old road, or Mao Zedong has been protested by the president with the "four-year-old youth" and "five black". Gilly must deal with her difficult choices between education and political future or her family. This book explains her experience in the cultural revolution, such as betrayed by classmates, destroying the four old people, attempting red guards or terrible arrests.
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