Red scarf girl
Subtitle: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution
By: Ji-li Jiang ; foreword by David Henry Hwang
Edition: 1st Harper Trophy ed.
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Personal narratives; Juvenile literature; History
Description: The author tells about the happy life she led in China up until she was twelve-years-old when her family became a target of the Cultural Revolution, and discusses the choice she had to make between denouncing her father and breaking with her family, or refusing to speak against him and losing her future in the Communist Party.
Notes: Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, 1997.