Bombard the Headquarters!: China’s Cultural Revolution
2025
A riveting account of a turbulent period in Chinese history.
Linda Jaivin is an internationally published Australian author,
translator, essayist, novelist and specialist writer on China.
2025
A riveting account of a turbulent period in Chinese history.
2021
This is a pacy history of China that will transform the way you see the world’s rising superpower.
2014
A witty and playful mystery set in contemporary Beijing, The Empress Lover is Linda Jaivin’s seventh novel and her most accomplished.
Friday, 23 May 2025 at 2:00 pm AEST
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The ARA Stage 245 Wilson Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Understanding China's future means understanding its past
As politicians and analysts attempt to manoeuvre with the global superpower, these writers reflect on how the 20th century got the nation where it is today.
Bombard the Headquarters!: The Cultural Revolution in China is Linda Jaivin’s account of the ideological quarrels and personalities that underpinned the violent beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Louisa Lim’s Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong and Edward Wong’s At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China mix national history with personal archives to paint detailed portraits of Hong Kong and China, respectively.
Join Linda, Louisa and Edward in conversation with Peter Hartcher as they discuss the crucial history that made China what it is today.