Ji-li Jiang

Ji-li Jiang was born in 1954 and is the author of the memoir, Red Scarf Girl, as well as The Magical Monkey King. She grew up and lived in Shanghai, China in a large apartment with her family.

Early life

Ji-li Jiang lived in a large apartment with her father Xi-reng, her mother Ying-Chen, her brother Ji-yong, her sister Ji-yun and her grandmother for a very short period of time. Her housekeeper, Song Po-po, also lived with them. Ji-li was a star student until 1966, when Chairman Mao started the Cultural Revolution. When she was 13, her father was falsely accused of listening to foreign radio and was detained and forced to do hard labor by the Chinese government. Ji-Li was humiliated by her peers at school who blamed her for her family's "black", or "anticommunist" past, and prevented her from becoming a Red Successor, a person who will become a Red Guard when they are old enough. When the Revolution ended, Jiang, later followed by most of her family, moved to Hawaii. She then mastered English and wrote Red Scarf Girl, a memoir of her life during the Cultural Revolution. This shows Jiang's life during the Cultural Revolution as well as her normal life before it. She ended up winning many awards because of her book, Red Scarf Girl. Then she started writing other books