[4] Sheng Xiaotian portrayed the bandit leader, Shi Juefei took the role of the Bai family patriarch, and Ruan Shengduo played the wandering warrior Wu Zhiyuan.

[2] The Valiant Girl White Rose was produced at a time when wuxia (martial arts) films with female protagonists was experiencing a surge in popularity.

[7] The martial arts costume in the film was reported to have been influenced by The Three Musketeers, which had found popularity in China,[4] and the moustache donned by Suyin resembled that of Hollywood star Douglas Fairbanks.

[9] It also used masquerade as a plot device, with the protagonist – in her male disguise – attracting the romantic attentions of two sisters; this misunderstanding results in her temporarily losing an ally.

[10] Regarding such depictions of gender performance, the film scholar Zhang Zhen describes the masquerade as sending a "mixed message" wherein the heroine only becomes a free and socially mobile woman by assuming a male identity, thereby continuing "to subordinate female power to a patriarchal order".