I came across someone recommending this book on the Internet the other day, so I found it from the library and classified it as children's literature. Probably because it was written by China people, it is easy to read. So, I can't put down the book and read it all at once. I almost cried in the library and on the train. ...

Ms. Jiang was born in Shanghai. 1966, she is twelve years old, in the sixth grade of primary school, with excellent grades and positive political progress. After the Cultural Revolution began, her father was detained to examine family composition and personal history, and her mother was also implicated. As a landlord, her grandmother in her seventies was ordered to sweep the street. She was forced to make a painful choice between her personal future and her close relatives ... 1984, she moved to the United States. She wrote out her experiences and thoughts in the two years after the beginning of the Cultural Revolution and published a book in the twentieth year after the end of the Cultural Revolution.

After the publication of 1997, the book received rave reviews, won many awards in the United States, and was listed as a must-read book by many middle schools. Generally speaking, the narrative of this book is unpretentious. This is not to say that the narrative has no feelings, on the contrary, the author's description of his own psychology makes readers feel the same. On the other hand, the author is not writing traumatic literature, nor does she exaggerate her experience with politicized accusations, although Ms. Jiang expressed some personal political views in the postscript.

Young people born after the Cultural Revolution can only learn about the Cultural Revolution from two generations of elders who have experienced it personally. No matter how this history is evaluated now or in the future, it has indeed directly and profoundly changed the fate of the parents' generation. Ms. Jiang is about the same age as my parents and has begun to enter her later years. They were just ordinary people during the Cultural Revolution. In the face of "unprecedented", their cultural revolution experience even seems very ordinary. However, this kind of account and biography is of great significance and value. These fragments are part of history that should not be forgotten. But some of its descriptions are too inconsistent with China's policies.