Linda Jaivin is an internationally published Australian author,
translator, essayist, novelist and specialist writer on China.
NZ Contemporary China Research Centre|Kōmaru Kura
Blackheath Public School
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.
Tuesday 1 July 2025 at 6:30 pm AEST
Ashfield Library
260 Liverpool Road #Level 3 Ashfield, NSW 2131
Free
Linda Jaivin is joined by Echo Hui to discuss her new book Bombard the Headquarters: the cultural revolution in China, a riveting account of a extraordinary and turbulent period in recent Chinese history.
In 1966, with the words ‘Bombard the Headquarters!’ Mao Zedong unleashed the full, violent force of a movement that he called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
Bombard the Headquarters! is not just Mao’s story. It’s the unforgettable stories of countless individuals, mass manias, sacred mangos and spectacular falls from grace.
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