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Red Scarf Girl connects to the current day because of an inquiry into the possible corruption of Zhou Yongkang, a top official in the Chinese Communist Party. Zhou was one of the Communist Party's nine top bosses during the time of President Hu Jintao. During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Government tried to rid itself of those Chairman Mao saw as the nation's enemies. The people that Chairman Mao considered the worst fell into the Five Black Categories: landlords, counterrevolutionaries, rightists, criminals, and rich peasants. Ji Li's father was labeled as a landlord, and by extension, an enemy of the common people.
Red Scarf Girl tells the story of Ji Li Jiang's experiences during the Cultural Revolution from when her father refused to let her audition for the Central Liberation Army Arts Academy to when she promises her mother that she will take care of her brother and sister. In between, her house gets searched twice, her father detained, her family's status reduced because of who her grandfather was as a wealthy landlord.
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