Media

Selected articles

January 8, 2022

Chine : la "plus courte" leçon d'histoire selon Linda Jaivin (in French)

Asialyst

May 26, 2021

How do you reduce the vast history of China into 288 lively pages? Lunch with Linda Jaivin

The Sydney Morning Herald

April 17, 2014

The Good Life: Linda Jaivin: Sex, Sinology and the Translator

GlobalVoices

April 10, 2014

Interview: Linda Jaivin, Life is complicated – but that is what gives it frisson for this traveller, translator and writer.

Sydney Morning Herald

April 10, 2014

Linda Jaivin, Erotica author, GOMA Talks

The Weekend Edition

May 27, 2011

The Good Life: lunch with Linda Jaivin

The Age

May 26, 2011

Fifty Shades of Jade: Erotic Writer Takes On China's Qing Dynasty

The Wall Street Journal

Selected podcasts

May 6, 2025

Ep. 20: Linda Jaivin on the Cultural Revolution

China Books Podcast

March 28, 2025

Real Wives of Dictators | Jiang Qing, Chairman Mao's Wife

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

February 23, 2022

What's life like in China today?

ABC – On Nightlife with Philip Clark

August 16, 2021

Linda Jaivin on the sprawling, messy history of China

ABC – Conversations with Richard Fidler & Sarah Kanowski

May 25, 2021

Lowy Institute Conversations : Linda Jaivin on her new book, The Shortest History of China

Lowy Institute Conversations

May 23, 2019

What was the icing on the cake?

ABC – On Your Afternoon with Helen Shield

May 29, 2015

Conversations with Richard Fidler: Linda Jaivin's 35 year experience of China

ABC- Conversations with Richard Fidler

June 9, 2014

A Love Affair with China: Amy Tan and Linda Jaivin

2014 Sydney Writers Festival

May 10, 2014

Initial Impressions: Three First Trips to China, 1970s-1990s

ChinaFile

January 22, 2014

In conversation with David Marr about translation on the ABC

ABC

Selected videos

June 22, 2022

My China Story: Linda Jaivin

Prof. Jing Han

February 19, 2022

SupChina's Jeremy Goldkorn interviews Linda Jaivin

SupChina

March 26, 2021

Rethinking China with Linda Jaivin

Rethinking China

August 5, 2014

The Book Club, Chris Taylor of 'The Chaser', along with Linda Jaivin, Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger

ABC TV

April 28, 2014

Linda Jaivin, author of The Empress Lover, in conversation with Booktopia's Caroline Baum

Booktopia

May 3, 2013

In bed with 'Chinese' Morrison. Linda Jaivin, ANU

ANU

July 18, 2011

Morrison's World – 72nd Annual George E. Morrison Lecture by Linda Jaivin

ANU

Australian author Linda Jaivin reflects on Liu Xiaobo

SBS