Ji-li Jiang
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Ji-li Jiang (born 1954) is the author of the book Red Scarf Girl. She grew up and lived in Shanghai, China in a large apartment with her father, mother, brother, sister, grandmother, Housekeeper, and cat. Ji-li was a star student until 1966 when Mao Zedong started the Cultural Revolution. When the Revolution ended, Jiang and her family moved to Hawaii. When she mastered English, she wrote Red Scarf Girl.
Jiang graduated from Shanghai Teacher's College and Shanghai University before moving to Hawaii in 1984. She graduated from the University of Hawaii and so began working as an operations analyst for a hotel chain. Later on Jiang became a budget director for a healthcare company in Chicago. In 1992, Jiang started her own company, East West Exchange, to promote cultural exchange between western countries and China.
