My kids are a bit familiar with this story already, because we live in Hong Kong and have seen parts of the series on TV and because they've also read parts of it extremely abdridged in Chinese "comic book" form.

They (aged 7 and 5) loved this book. It is written in clear English, that nonetheless gives a feel for the names amd action of the characters. It is abridged enough so the kids don't get bored, but is complete enough to be faithful to the full-length novel. We just finished reading it aloud 5 days ago and the kids REALLY wanted to know what happens next.

Unfortunetely, the second installment of the story is not yet published. So, my family is now waiting impatiently for the next bit.

The only thing that could be better were the illustrations. They were small and in black and white. While I know that making the book larger and with color illustrations would have made it more expensive, I would have been willing to pay for it.

Excellent book.

When I hold this book, I feel worry free about mathematical questions because this imperial book could tell me where to find the solution or the direction to find the answer with its more than 500 problems and solutions on six aspects of graduate school mathematics: Algebra, Topology, Differential Geometry, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis and Partial Differential Equations. It covers the most aspects in one book I have seen. It gives me brief, straightforward and clear solutions which are easy to be understood.

This book is a memoir written from the perspective of the author as a 12-year-old girl living during the Cultural Revolution in China. It takes place in the later 1960s, starting in 1966. My opinion of this story was that it was a very informative and interesting story, but not a very satisfying one. The details in this book helped to visualize the settings and atmosphere. They help inform people about what had happened in China during the Cultural Revolution, which is something people need to know about. The characters were very believable, as they were all actual people. The author did not leave out any of the grittier details, and showed how "black families" were treated. The description of the treatment of Jiang Ji-li and her family and how Du Hai and Yin Lan-lan acted towards their peers with bad class backgrounds.

The only potential flaw with this book isn't really a flaw at all. This is the fact that the story is not a very satisfying one, although, this was not meant to. It wasn't meant to resolve everything at the end. Ji-li's situation keeps on getting worse and worse throughout the story. The Cultural Revolution was not a happy time in China, so this story is rightly dismal.

Do not read this book looking for a story where all things are set right again at the end. Read this story to learn about the hardships that took place during the Cultural Revolution in China. It is a story that needs to be told.

A very well written book with good descrptions. Even it's easy to read, you will never want to put the book down. This is a real-life story about Ji-li, a girl who lived during the Cultural Revolution of China. Because her ancestor was a landloard, it means she had a very bad family background in the opinion of the Chinese government's eyes. She couldn't attend a lot of activities that other kids did and she couldn't even take a lot of good opportunities because of her family background. She was later given two choices, either to break up with her family to join and be part of the Communist society or to stay with her black family. (In the story, the family with bad background was considered black family.) This book really touched me. I was stunned to know what the Cultural Revolution was and how it could affect so many good people in China. The setting was years ago and it surprised me to know the way they lived. It was very different from the idea of culture experience that I know. I don't usually like real-life stories but I enjoyed reading this book very much. It was written so it sounded just like a novel. It was a very sentimental book. I felt like I was Ji-li while reading this book. It made me fell depressed and sad. I could feel my heart beating all the time wondering what Ji-li would do or what would happen next. I recommend this book to everyone who likes historical fiction and real life stories. Anyone who doesn't like this kind of book can also try challenging theirself to read Red Scarf Girl.

The memoir Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang is a poignant and true story about a young girl's coming of age during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Set in the late 60s, Ji Li was an enthusiastic Young Pioneer who dreamed of becoming a part of Chairman Mao's renowned Liberation Army. However, the intelligent young girl was about to get a startling insight into the true nature of the Communist Party. This memoir shows how youthful enthusiasm and patriotism were exploited by the political party and plunged the era into tragedy and turmoil.

Throughout the book, there is a constant stream of unpleasant events popping up in Ji Li's life.Chairman Mao was a turgid river,washing away the soil that was Ji LI's revolutionary spirit with the sticks and stones of hard work and poverty until her righteous courage began to shine through. The many hardships she faced only served to strengthen her in ways she had not known she had before. She found out that she had an inner courage and stubbornness, as well as the feeling that what they were doing in school was wrong. Events at school, at home, and even in the street were gradually showing Ji Li that Chairman Mao's Revolutionary China would not be at all what they expected.

Ji Li Jiang had always thought of her family as perfect. In times when rooms were small and cramped,her family had a room ten times as large and a hundred times brighter than many of her classmates. On Saturdays there would sometimes be wonderful parties where her Dad's colleagues would come and visit. Everything was perfect in her life until the Liberation Army Dancer came to Xin Er Primary School. After being tested for flexibility, Ji Li was chosen as one fo the few students recruited for the honor of auditioning for the elite Central Liberation Army Arts Academy. However,when she shared the happy news with her family during dinner, their reaction was different from what she expected. "Don't do the audition" was all her father said, but those words revealed that the political background of her family was not as perfect as she would would like to believe. Should she obey her father or pursue her dream? None of her classmates at school could see the innter battle that wreaked havoc within Ji Li's mind. Then, when some of them turned upon her in revolutionary righteousness, Ji Li was thrown even deeper into confusion.

When she was forced to listen to her bourgeois Aunt Xi-wen read the shameful da zi bao posted about her, Ji Li realized that there was something truly wrong with Chairman Mao's ideology. Surrounded by her revolutionary clasmates, however, she could do nothing but stare at her feet in shame.When her father was detained on the basis of a false accusation of listening to foreign radio, Ji Li was pressured to stand againsd her father in trial. By so doing, she would be allowed to purge herself of her family's bad class status and go on to become a Red Successor. Ji Li knew that it was not the right thing to do. She stolidly refused to betray her father each and every time the matter cameup and it showed that there was a great deal of inner strength in the 14-year-old girl.

The story of the Red Scarf Girl flows smoothly. The honest and staightforward way that Ji Li retells her childhood makes the reader feel as if he/she were really there. However, it is mildy depressing to follow so many tragic events in a young girl's life. For readers who are looking for fun books to read, this is not a good choice.