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Book Review By Eugene
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ms. Jiang

This book is an autobiography by Ji Li Jiang, about her life and growing up and surviving the cultural revolution in China. She is faced with many difficult decicions to change her life.


Plot & Themes
Political/social rights fight Yes
Plotlet:
Gender/Class story? - story of lower class
Family, hate Yes
The difficult family member - disapproves of way another relative is treated
Ethnic/regional/gender Yes

Subject of Biography
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Ethnicity - Other Asian
Nationality - Chinese

Setting
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
Century: - 1960's-1970's

Writing Style
Book makes you feel? - angry
If this is a kid's book: - Age 14-16
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 76%-100% of book
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