Jiang has written a longer version of Red Scarf Girl, entitled Red Scarf Girl with Connections. Readers should look at the nine extra pages of historical and biographical material that this book adds to her original text. For books about other young Chinese people who lived through the Cultural Revolution, try Chi-huan Wen's The Red Mirror: Children of China's Cultural Revolution (1995).

The author of this book writes a long introduction about the Cultural Revolution and follows it with thirteen stories from friends and acquaintances who were children at that time. He interviews them as adults to get their impressions and memories. Zhu Xiao Di has written a book about his own memories of this turbulent period in Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China (1998). The vocabulary and ideas in this book are more advanced than what...