Ji-li Jiang

Ji-li Jiang (born 1954) is the author of the book Red Scarf Girl. She grew up and lived in Shanghai, China in a large apartment with her father, mother, brother, sister, grandmother, and cat. Ji-li was a star student until 1966 when Mao Zedong started the Cultural Revolution. After discovering her family was a "black family" or exploiters of the working class, Ji-li and her family had to endure the torment of students and Red Guards. When the Revolution ended, Jiang and her family moved to Hawaii. When she mastered English, she wrote Red Scarf Girl.