Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

Red Scarf Girl. Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang was the first book to make me cry. Bridge Terabithia? Sad but not a true tale. Harry Potter? Sure a lot of great characters and people die in it and you'll claim you cried for certain people but you don't really cry. Red Scarf Girl however is-is a whole different category of sad. It gives you a knew look on sad. The book is a peace of a girl's life. Not only that but it doesn't show the good, it shows the bad, hard, and painful moments. When my teacher told me we would be reading another memoir I groaned. We've already read one, and that one was bearable. So naturally this one would be unbearable. When I got the book I read the first page. I was already thinking I can't read this. The author was already bragging about there perfect life. You know the type. Anyways that's what I don't like about memoirs. If it was any old book I would've stopped reading there. But unfortunately it was homework. Reluctantly I continued reading. And I started to forget, forget it was a memoir. This book is like Harry Potter but real and not magic. Then the book became the kind of book you can't put down. As I got further into the book I started crying at parts. It made me realize that however bad my day is this girl's day for 3 years is even worse. Filled with worry, fear, confusion, and all sorts of miserable and negative things. And to top it off. Almost every single thing she owned was taken from me. This is the part in a normal book when I would come back to reality and remember that it's not real. But in this book I don't get that. Instead I remember that this was real and this girl who would other wise be brilliant, respected and loved is slowly becoming more and more depressed and lost. The brilliant girl who was at the beginning of the book respected by everyone is bow nothing but a black welp. A dirty thing that nobody likes. Red Scarf girl is a true heart warming story that can make anybody's bad day a good one.

平易な英語からすると子供向けの本であり、かなり評判になったことは米国アマゾンのレヴュー数が数百であることから分かる。欧米に帰化した中国人による類書は多いが、本書は上海での少女時代の数年をカバーしており、家庭背景が悪く（運悪く、元地主階級）悲惨な境遇におとしめられる、その不幸の極致で話が終わっている。短い後書きで後にアメリカにわたり、今はハワイで暮らしているとあるが、当初、英語も満足でなかったというから苦労したのだろうが、そんなのは彼女にとって苦労のうちに入らなかっただろう。つくづく文化革命時代の洗脳のむごさを知らされる体験談である。 それにしても、本書の英語は平易、簡潔であり高校生・大学初級レベルの英語の勉強にとても役立つだろう。また、常に共産党の宣伝・洗脳にさらされている中国人向け英語テキストにはぴったりだろう・・・嫌味か。

A historia eh interessante e fiquei envolvida, mas acho que para adolescentes ele não eh muito legal.

Very good. Thank you very much! Fully recommended seller!

Could not put this book down!!!! I would highly recommend that anybody with an interest in history read this book. Also a great read for our youth.