Vocabulary
A group of semi-formal students that supported Mao Ze Dong and felt it was their duty to support the Cultural Revolution.
What is the Red Guards?
Ji Li's best friend.
Who is An Yi?
When does Ji Li fist see The Cultural Revolution occur. (An event that got rid of the four olds.)
What is destroying the shop sign at the Great Prosperity Market?
Where do we first meet Ji Li in the book?
At her school.
When your hair is shaved on one side, and is left long on the other side.
What is a Yin Yang Hairdo
First called Pauper, but then is referred by her real name.
Who is Deng Yi-yi?
After being yelled at by the Red Successors, what does Ji Li do?
What is crying?
Main enemy of the Communists, left China and went to Taiwan.
What were the Nationalists?
One of the red successors that harassed Ji Li and An Yi. Ji Li used to help her with math.
Who is Yin Lan Lan?
This happened after a knife was found.
What is a search?
A person who loves everything foreign and exotic. Ji Li is called one when someone finds her stamp collection.
What is a xenophile?
This teacher is a motherly figure to Ji Li, and tried to help Ji Li get into Shi Yi.
Who is Teacher Gu?
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Search
A Chinese penny, a hundred of them equals a yuan.
What is a fen?
He is nice to Ji Li and convinces her that she can overcome her family background.
Who is Teacher Zhang?
Any of the tortures that the Theater people did to Ji Li's dad.
What are made him carry concrete pipes, they beat him, and starved him?