Red Scarf Girl, by Ji-Li lang

When she is told not to pass the audition in the early stages of the revolution she will only have a cautious sense of what will happen, but also a few mistakes related to her family, revolution or other aspects I did not experience it. Until then the world. Although small, the first glimpse of the next torture trial began to penetrate into her careless heart and made it possible for her to start thinking about the problem raised at the moment she belonged. In the middle of a girl wearing a red scarf, she began to fully understand the influence of the revolution as a difficult problem to choose to start a party.

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.

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.

In 1966, 12 year old Jiang Jili had everything the girls wanted: brain, communism popularity and bright future. However, it was also the year when the Chinese leader Mao Zedong started the cultural revolution - Geely's world began to collapse. In the coming years, people who were friends and neighbors turned her attention to her and her family, and they were forced to live in the ongoing terrorist arrest. When Gilly's father was finally imprisoned, she faced the most difficult dilemma in her life.