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Ji-Li talks about how she was born on chinese new year. She also talks about when she was 12 the cultural revoultion started
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Ji-LI is intorduced to a chinese female soldier looking for young acrobats to help the cause of the revolution
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Ji-Li introduces her freind An-Yi and her sister Ji-Yi as they break signs envolving evil stuff to the revolutionists
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The teachers are declared evil and are haveing bad things written about them and posted on them also Ji-Li is forced to poste a insult on her aunt's door
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JI-Li has a Dai-ZI-Bo written about her an=nd is then tormented by the red succsersers a group that will become soldeirs when they grow up
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One of Ji-Li's neighbors gets searched and tortured for the belif that he does not like chairman Mao
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An-Yi's grandmother kills herself out of fear of being tortured
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Ji-Li's house is searched beacuse they think her dad is evil
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Ji-Li is finnaly put into a high school but her torment still doesnot end
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Her father is aressted for being evil
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Ji- LI is forced to decide between her family or her school life she chooses to stay with her faimly
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Ji-Li is forced to work at a farm for the summer
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after getting back from the farm Ji-Li is forced to sweep the streets but then the revolutionis over and she and her faimly escape to america