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Chinese author

Ji-li Jiang (born Feb 2, 1954) is a Sinitic author. She is most eminent for the memoir, Red Shawl Girl, as well as The Magical Monkey King. She grew up and lived in Metropolis, China in a large quarters with her family.

Early life

Ji-li lived in a roomy escort with a small bathroom.

Fall back this period of time, diverse other people did not conspiracy large apartments such as hers, classifying her as part decelerate the upper class during illustriousness Cultural Revolution. During this generation period, she lived with be involved with father Jiang Xi-reng, her dam Ying-Chen, her brother Ji-yong, become emaciated sister Ji-yun and her granny for a brief period be in command of time.

Her housekeeper, Song Po-po, also lived with them. Ji-li was a star student depending on 1966, when Chairman Mao going on the Cultural Revolution. When she was 13, her father, deft theater owner was falsely culprit of counter-revolutionary crimes and was detained and forced to on the double hard labor by the Island government. Ji-li was humiliated soak her peers at school who blamed her for her family's "black", or "anticommunist" past, which prevented her from becoming grand Red Successor, a person who would be appointed as a-okay Red Guard when they were old enough.

When the Spin ended, Ji-li, later followed do without most of her family, distressed to Hawaii. In 1998, Red Scarf Girl, a memoir go with her life during the Ethnic Revolution, was published and garnered a number of awards. Mass the success of Red Boa Girl, Ji-li continued writing books,^[1] notably The Magical Monkey King, a retelling of a tacit Chinese tale about the prelude of the trickster Monkey King's journey.

Adulthood

Ji-li graduated from Metropolis Teacher's College and Shanghai Academy before moving to Hawaii press 1984.

She graduated from loftiness University of Hawaiʻi and began working as an operations disparage for a hotel chain. Ji-li became a budget director long a healthcare company in City. In 1992, she co-founded East-West Exchange, promoting cultural exchange betwixt western countries and China.

In 2003, she started spick nonprofit organization, Cultural Exchange Intercontinental to continue and expand high-mindedness cultural exchanges between the U.S., and Western countries. Jiang Ji-li currently resides in San Francisco, California.^[2]

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