Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains friends and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China?s infamous Cultural Revolution. Soon school is suspended and students are getting caught up in the fervor of Mao?s extreme politics.
When Ji-li?s family is accused of capitalist crimes all of her beautiful dreams burst like soap bubbles. Because Ji-li?s grandfather was a landlord her family is harassed and humiliated. Their home is searched and they live in constant fear. Nonetheless Ji-li remains loyal to her beloved Chairman Mao and endeavors to ?reform her ideology.? But with her father?s detention Ji-li is faced with the most difficult choice of her life.
Told with simple grace this is the true story of a family?s courage in one of the most terrifying eras of modern history. Christina Moore?s moving narration makes the Jiang family?s saga unforgettable.
