Growing Up Under a Red Flag: A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution

In this picture-book memoir, Ying Chang Compestine recalls her childhood in China during the Cultural Revolution. She was a young girl when Mao began the campaign in 1966 to strengthen his authority and remove non-communist values from the country. The account spans 1966 to 1976 and is accompanied by ink and colored artwork with historical and cultural detail.