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Junior High At Last Ji li a twelve year old Chinese girl who lives in china is graduating primary school with her best friend An yi. They both wish not to have any of the same people in the class because they didn’t want anyone to know about their black background. They both get their new classes, there not in the same class but they see no one form last year’s class so they are both really happy. Ji-Li ends up really likening her teacher Zhang Xin. She loves the sound of his voice and how beautiful and powerful his handwriting looked. The teachers teach about Chairman Mao. Ji Li gets offered to write on the blackboard because she has really neat handwriting but she does not want to because she thinks they will investigate and find out how she has a black background and she does not want that.

Locked Up It was now winter vacation and all the kids were starting to stay at there house. One night, Uncle Fan knocked on the Jiang's door. His face was swollen, bruised and bloody, which startled the whole family. The next morning, when everyone awakes, Dad still isn’t home. They are very worried and think that he has been locked up. Ji Li calls their uncle, who was at the party with him, to ask what happened to her dad. He was acting very nervous and didn’t want to tell Ji Li that her father was locked up for not following Chairman Mao’s rules. During all of this, mom’s miner syndrome was acting up. She is getting very nervous and extremely worried.

An Educable Child As Ji li is sewing, she gets a knock on the door, it was Lin lin, a girl in her class. She came to inform her that Teacher Zhang wanted her to attend a meeting the next day. Then Ji lis little brother ji yong walks in. Her grandmother questions him about his trip to see his dad. Unfortunately he wasn't allowed to talk or see him. When she arrived at the meeting she couldn't figure out what it was for. Then she realized it was for class education exhibition. So she went and asked Teacher Zhang. He said that he picked her for a reason and that it didn't matter about her families class status, he believed she was a very good educable child.