Setting of The Red Scarf Girl

"Red Scarf Girl" is a story that takes place in China, 1966. When the main character Ji-Li turns twelve she is expecting to join a dancing school in the liberation army. But right at that moment Cultural Revolution strikes and low status families are divided and kept away from their hopes and safety. Ji-Li lives in a better part of the neighborhood of where she lives (located in Shanghai) and lives in a apartment like house with many of her friends and classmated living in the same town as her. Shanghai is taken over mainly during the Cultural Revolution and Ji-Li grows through the highest peak of the revolution.....