Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang

    " If you want to talk about Four Olds... you always say yang-huo for matches. That really does mean foreign fire. So aren't you spreading Four Olds?" 

Jiang, Ji-Li. Red Scarf Girl. New York: Harper Collins, 2008. 35. Print.


"Respect the teachers? That's the nonsense of  'teacher's dignity.''

Jiang, Ji-Li. Red Scarf Girl. New York: Harper Collins, 2008. 35. Print.


"It was almost unbelievable. Within a couple of days almost all th fourolds shop signs had been removed. The stores we talked about had all been renamed."

  Jiang, Ji-Li. Red Scarf Girl. New York: Harper Collins, 2008. 27. Print.



"...There's no such thing as an auspicious date. That's superstition, and superstition is four olds. And the name Great Prosperity is very bad. Great prosperity means to make a fortune, and making a fortune is what bad people do. Right?"

 Jiang, Ji-Li. Red Scarf Girl. New York: Harper Collins, 2008. 26. Print.



"One of the boys was trying to squeeze an empty beer bottle up the man's trouser leg. This was a newly invented measurement. If the bottle could not be stuffed into the trouser leg, the pants were considered fourolds and treated with 'revolutionary operations'- cut open."

 Jiang, Ji-Li. Red Scarf Girl. New York: Harper Collins, 2008. 31. Print.