Linda Jaivin

Linda is the internationally published author of twelve books including seven novels as well as five works of nonfiction, the latest being The Shortest History of China, which was named best book on China in 2021 by five books.com. She is also a prolific essayist, cultural commentator and literary translator (from Chinese).

Works By Linda Jaivin

Prison and the Poet
Correctional is a migrant family story, prison memoir, record of a spiritual journey, love story, and morality tale. It is also an examination of race and policing in America and a critique of class on two continents. It is the record of an imperf...
13 Feb. 2022
To the Barricades
On 9 June 2019, a million people poured into the streets of Hong Kong, kicking off a protest movement that would last seven months, see pitched battles between citizens and police on tear-gassed streets, and shake the territory to its economic fou...
19 Apr. 2020
Caught Mapping
The fires that are burning across Australia are changing this place, quite possibly forever, and with it our natural, social, cultural, and political narratives. The fires are writing new stories into the very rocks and soil of our land, this land...
11 Feb. 2020
A complex beast: Party Time & Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei
The Chinese Communist Party is arguably the single most powerful organisation in the world.
2 Aug. 2013

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Linda Jaivin

Works By Linda Jaivin

Prison and the Poet

To the Barricades

Caught Mapping

A complex beast: Party Time & Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei