To add to your reading on China...

I highly recommend Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See to round out your reading on China this month. It is set in rural China in the early to mid-1800's, much earlier than the Cultural Revolution described in Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution, but I expect that the cultural history and the circumstances of women that it describes might add to our understanding of the Cultural Revolution more than a century later. If nothing else, it is amazing to contemplate the many changes, especially for women, that took place within that century. You can read my complete review here.