Red Scarf Girl (summary)

This autobiography is about Jili, the daughter of an actor, who is a bourgeois. She is rich, smart, flexible and an honor student. But the cultural revolution thing changes her status completely. Her respectable family suddenly becomes a five black category family and she also get called a black whelp. she loses many opportunities for life.... and her dream...the family wealth is all confiscated by the government and the adults of the family are becoming janitors and street sweepers/cleaners.By the end, it is unfortunate that Jili realises that she was tried to get brainwashed by the government into the communism way by force and that it worked. Later, she moved to US and lives happily with her family worrying about the future of China, the one that ruined nearly entire her whole life.