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Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China's infamous Cultural Trend. Soon school is suspended and students are receiving 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 cleaning soap bubbles. Because Ji-li's grandfather was a landlord, her family is harassed and humiliated. Their home is searched, and they live in continuous fear. Nonetheless, Ji-li remains faithful to her precious Chairman Mao and endeavors to "reform her ideology". But with her father's detention, Ji-li is faced with the most challenging choice of her life. Told with simple sophistication, this is the true story of an family's courage in one of the most terrifying eras of modern record. Christina Moore's moving narration makes the Jiang family's saga remarkable.
