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- Ji-li's father
- actor
- labelled as a landlord and a righist
- he is taken in the middle of the book and betten because his friend falsely accused him of listening to foreign radio
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- the mom and Ji-li and her siblings
- trying to keep everything together during the cultural revolution
- she suffers from menieres syndrome=makes her really dizzy and pass out
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- Ji-li's grandmother on her father's side
- she was married to a landlord
- she is trying to deal with the communist party while preserving the past in her own way
- she is deafly scared that the Red Guard will search their house
- gets hit by a Red Guard and is forced to sweep the streets at the end of the book
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- Ji-li's 9 year old sister
- humilated at school because of her bad background
- her classmates throw her backpack out of the window
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- Ji-li's younger brother
- he's very mischeviouls and popular
- his friends' parents are being "re-educated"
- he was beat up because of his family history
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- Ji-li's ex-housekeeper (fired because housekeepers were concidered four olds)
- she still helps out with the family
- has curly hair
- nanny to all three children
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- Ji-li's classmate
- he is also part of the Red Successors
- he has a crush on Ji-li
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- Ji-li's teacher in junior high school who signs her up for the propaganda group despite her background
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- a Red Successor who gives Ji-li a hard time because of her background
- an extreme bully
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- Ji-li's best friend
- her mother is being re-educated and beat up everyday
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- Another Red Successor bully
- gives Ji-li a hard time
- she isn't very smart and blames her poor grades on her teachers
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- friend of Du Hai
- bully's Ji-li
- argues with Ji-li and An-Yi about the four olds
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- Ji-li's friend in Jr. High School
- her brother has emalepsy
- she is a red successor and a great believer in Communism
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- leader of the Communist party
- brainwashed China
- ordered that the four olds to be destroyed
- Red Guards are his soldiers
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- an old Chinese man who refused to give up his bike to the Red Guard so they search his house and humilate him
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- A Red Guard with 6 fingers on his right hand
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- The Red Guard who kept Ji-li's father captive in his old theater
- He tries to make Ji-li testify against her father
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