Ji-Li Jiang's 'The Red Scarf Girl'

Red Scarf Girl Ji-li Jiang is the author of Red Scarf Girl. The Genre is Memoir. Ji-li Jiang isa very intelligent 12 year old girl. At the start she supported China’s leader, Mao Ze-dong launching the Cultural Revolution and everything went upside down.

The Song Dynasty was an important time in Chinese history. It was a time in which people started to move to commercial cities and survive of the cultivation of rice. People during this time period started to become more and more educated due to greater availability of books. Confucian thought was important to the people of China during this period. People were tested on Confucian ideals in order to serve in positions of civil service. The requirement of passing a test in order to hold a position in civil service allowed for a more fair selection process for these leadership positions.

Another change was the education of women. The education of women in China was viewed as unimportant. A woman's job was to serve her husband, and she did not need to know the Confucian classics to do that. Growing up,Yu-i had a desire to learn, although she did not know where she got it from. "Of the four girls in the family, I was the one who cared the most about education, even from the very beginning." (Chang, 56). Though she was the only girl in her family who desired to learn, many other women of her generation also were starting to become educated. This was another change for China, and another sign showing how important the Western world was becoming.

Throughout all of history, males and females have always had certain expectations in which they need to uphold. Both males and females are expected to act, dress, and do certain things that the opposite sex normally would not do. If somebody were to act as someone else of the opposite sex, society would then look down upon that person and humiliate them for what they have done. If a man or a woman desires to act or dress as the opposite sex, they should be able to without being humiliated or shamed. Society has too many expectations and regulations that people have to follow in order to fit in or be considered “normal”. No one should be shamed for how they want to feel or act. What we look like on the outside does not always match who we actually are in the inside; which is what actually truly matters.

《Shanghai Girls》 is the Chinese-American writer, Lisa See published in 2009. In this novel, the theme of the novel is often interpreted as describing her emotions. About her life in China and the United States, with plenty of space describes the life of Chinese immigrants and her mentality, and appearing the homesick theme of the novel. This article focus on China 's Shanghai, Angel Island in United States and Los Angeles, those three places for basic point. And show the protagonist pearl and May as the representative of Chinese immigrants, they were forced to flee from China, then to the full of hopeful and expectation to America. The author use theme layers forward to reveal the theme of the novel homesickness. 《Shanghai Girls 》 has enriched the literary theme of immigration; broaden the horizons of Chinese American Literature. These have three issues that worth of research: The background of the article; the relationship between this article and the history of California; and this book reflects the historical process of Chinese immigrants at that time.

“How did the disruption of the educational system during the Cultural Revolution affect the life outcomes of people who were getting their educations in the period 1966-75?” By using this as a topic to question, I will be reviewing the impact of the lack of education had on people as they got older and began looking for jobs in China. Although it may seem clear to many on why missing an education would make it harder for one to obtain a job, I still think it needs to be looked into as why this education was stopped, and following with the affects it had on people.

Although the Cultural Revolution had a huge impact on all of the citizens of China, it seemed to affect the youth the most. The youth of China began to get involved after a speech by Lin Biao by 1965. It urged the students in schools and colleges to return to the basic principles of the CR. The Chinese youths quickly formed a group called the Red Guards early in the CR, which encouraged all the Chinese students to disapprove of whoever didn’t support Mao and his beliefs or anyone associated with Mao’s rival, Liu Shaoqi (Trueman). Schools and colleges were closed, and the students neglected their studies. While the Red Guards were very passionate about what they did, their enthusiasm nearly pushed China into social disorder. The economy was affected very badly, and almost driven to a near collapse (Busetto, Galduroz, and Satou). Food shortage was one of the main problems the economy caused. Also In some areas, the activities of the Red Guards got out of hand. They

Flint fire starters, weapons, food supplies, and many other physical objects are some tools necessary for survival. But some of the most crucial tools needed to survive are psychological. Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl” depicts the struggle of surviving through adversities. The story follows the unfavorable journey of Rosa, her infant daughter Magda, and a young girl named Stella at a Nazi concentration camp. Rosa believes that a shawl gives her hope for Magda’s survival during the horror of what the Holocaust brought.

Li’s life in Communist China was difficult for him and his family of 9. Li’s family were living in poverty in a town called Qingdao. Li’s family made little money and poor living space with a large family. Li’s family all worked on the farm earning little money for important things in life. Li’s education taught him Chinese culture and language.

The novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai SiJie is about two boys, the narrator and his friend Luo. Along with other with other youths of China, they were both sent down to the country side during the Cultural Revolution of China to be re-educated. At the time anyone that had high school education were considered intellectuals and were considered as a threat to the cultural movement. However, the narrator or Luo only had middle school education and were considered intellectuals. One big reason why they were sent down was because their parents were considered intellectuals and they were paying the price for it.

Before the Cultural Revolution, the percentage of China’s population that went to school around 1949 was extremely low. Only 1 out of every four kids attended primary school while the “total enrollment of the country’s 180 institutions of higher learning was just 80,000” (Pepper 847) when China had a population of 500 million. The youth of China were complaining that their “demands of education could not be ‘fully

The author of this article , Xu Youwei is not presented with hardly any detail or information about his life. Xu Youwei is an associate professor at the Hefei College of Education. He is also a Chinese author who mainly focuses on ancient China.

The Cultural Revolution could be defined as one of the disasters in China. In that period, most of the students were forced to become sent-down youth and lost chances to be educated at school. However, Chinese people explored some important spirits in this period. Both Wang and Zheng experienced the transition period in China and they left valuable gifts to the next generation in China. When they recalled their sent-down youth experience, both of them found the positive point inside this dark period.

One way that Mao Zedong negatively impacted the life of the average Chinese citizen during the Cultural Revolution was by forcing people to join the Red Guard. The government removed kids from school to educate and brainwash them to be communist and the government trained the Red Guards to torture those who did not follow Mao’s policies. A former Red Guard who left school said, “One day I went to school... and one of my classmates... reported me to the Red Guards, for he wished [for us] to join them ("Eyewitness: Cultural Revolution”).” This negativity altered the life for the Chinese people because it took away the education of the next generation and instead put in place one type of idea, communism. The kids were brainwashed with ideas and obligations of Maoism a form of communism.

Universities were shut down by this revolution for TWO years. Just imagine if those men and women would have received their two more years of education. The children we can’t forget about them their schools were shut down as well but reopened later on. Entrance exams for colleges and universities were postponed from the year of 1966 and weren’t accepted until the year of 1977. Zhanjiang a city in china had illiteracy rates were as high as 41% even after 20 years of the cultural revolution. Between the years of 1968 and 1979 17 million people of china’s urban youths left and were desperate of a higher education because the corrupt chairman mao obviously wasn’t cutting it for these young good spirited children. Since school wasn't an option for grown ups people were forced to work in labor camps. Many did happen to leave shortly after the revolution. While the years of schooling were reduced and education standard fell the proportion of Chinese children who had completed primary education increased from less than half before the Cultural Revolution to almost all after the Cultural Revolution and those who completed junior middle school rose from 15% to over