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.
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 at 6:30 pm AEST
Concord Library
60 Flavelle Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Free
An expert in Chinese politics looks back at China under Mao Zedong and birth of the Cultural Revolution.
With more than 40 years experience studying Chinese language, politics and culture, author and translator Linda Jaivin brings it all to work into her new book Bombard the Headquarters!. It’s a holistic profile of the Cultural Revolution that is both deftly precise and brilliantly concise.
Join Linda in this fascinating talk about one of the world’s most significant and lethal sociopolitical movements.