Ji-li Jiang

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Ji-li Jiang (born February 2, 1954) is an author.

She is best known for her memoir, Red Scarf Girl, as well as The Magical Monkey King.

She grew up and lived in Shanghai, China, with her family in a large apartment.

Early life

Ji-li lived in a 350-square-foot apartment with a small bathroom. During the Cultural Revolution, many other people did not have large apartments like hers, deeming her as part of the upper class. During this time, she lived with her father Jiang Xi-reng, her brother Ji-Chen, her brother Ji-Yong, her sister Ji-Yong, her sister Ji-Yong, and her grandmother for a brief period of time. Song Po-po, the housekeeper, also lived with them. When Chairman Mao began the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Ji-li was a star student until 1966. When she was 13, her father, a theatre owner, was wrongly accused of counter-revolutionary crimes and was arrested and coerced to do hard labour by the Chinese government. Ji-li was mocked by her classmates at school who chastised her for her family's "black" or "anticommunist" history, preventing her from becoming a Red Successor, a person who would be appointed as a Red Guard when they were old enough.

When the Revolution came to an end, Ji-li, then followed by the majority of her family, and eventually moved to Hawaii. Red Scarf Girl, a memoir of her life during the Cultural Revolution, was published in 1998 and received a number of awards. Following the success of Red Scarf Girls, Ji-li continued writing books, most notably The Magical Monkey King, a retelling of a traditional Chinese tale about the trickster Monkey King's journey.

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