Red Scarf Girl

In 1966 China's leader, Mao Ze-dong, launched the Cultural Revolution, and everything changed. Ji Li would experience humiliation as she and her family was judged by the fact that her grandfather had been a landlord. They lived in constant terror of arrest. Finally, with the detention of her father, Ji-li faced the most difficult choice of her life. JiLi has an opportunity to be trained as a gymnist and go to the best schools. But, she must denounce her father and break with her family, or she could refuse and sacrifice her future in the Communist Party. This is the true story of one family's courage and determination.