The Red Scarf Girl

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The Red Scarf Girl
Part I. Prologue (12) The Liberation Army Dancer
(318) Destroy the Four Olds (1937) Writing
Da-zi-bao (3851) The Red Successors (5271)
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Prologue

• Ji-li
• lucky and beautiful
• Born on Chinese New Year
• 12 yrs old in 6th grade
• 1966 -- start of the Cultural Revolution
• Red Scarf emblem of the Young Pioneers
• Chairman Mao leader of the Communist Party

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The Liberation Army Dancer

• Principal Long Xin Er Primary School
• Comrade Li
• From the Central Liberation Army Arts Academy
• Recruiting students for the dance training class
  

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• Ji-li was told not to audition due to political
  background investigation that family would not
  pass
• Ji-yong Ji-lis younger brother
• An Yi Ji-lis best friend
• Ji-yun Ji-lis younger sister
• Father actor
• Mother actress
• Grandmother graduated from a modern-style high
  school in 1914, founded Xin Er Primary School
• Song Po-po nanny, now housekeeper

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• Jiangs Salon
• Fathers colleagues visit
• Uncle Zhou actor
• Uncle Tian and Aunt Wu beautiful couple
• Uncle Fan friend since college
• Uncle Bao -- playwright

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Destroy the Four Olds

• Four Olds must destroy and establish the Four
  News
• Old ideas
• Old culture
• Old customs
• Old habits
• An-yi and Ji-li witness the breaking of the sign
  at the Great Prosperity Market
• Also witness the humiliation of a man whose pants
  did not meet the requirements as well as his
  shoes
• Du-hai mother is the Neighborhood Party
  Committee Secretary

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The End of Part I
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Writing Da-Zi-Bao

• Classes suspended
• Instead had to participate in the movement by
  writing big posters (Da-zi-bao) criticizing the
  educational system
• Ji-li went with group to post poster about her
  relative Jiang Xi-wen
• Poster popped up about Ji-li accusing her of
  having a relationship with her teacher
• An-yi was also written

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The Red Successors

• Red Guards
• Rebel against the old system
• Only college and high school kids allowed to be
  guards
• Red Successors
• Next generation of Red Guards
• Elementary/middle school kids
• Ji-li not elected because of class status
• Father accused of being a rightist
• Grandfather was a landlord
• Red Successors turned on Ji-li