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Linda Jaivin
Linda Jaivin is an essayist, translator and novelist.
Books & Arts
China’s forgotten reformer
Linda Jaivin
14 December 2022
A historian rescues a former leader from the party’s airbrushers
International
Little Pinks and their achy breaky hearts
Linda Jaivin
3 December 2021
China’s army of easily offended young internet-watchers is attracting its own critics
International
Last call for China’s drinking culture?
Linda Jaivin
28 October 2021
China is waking up to the downside of its world-beating level of alcohol consumption
International
Shooting down the “girlie guns”
Linda Jaivin
4 October 2021
Beijing’s crackdown on
niangpao
reflects anxieties dating back to Europe’s nineteenth-century incursions
Books & Arts
Death in Shanghai
Linda Jaivin
16 September 2021
How Xu Shangzhen’s suicide gripped a city
International
First kisses and invisible red lines
Linda Jaivin
3 September 2021
Chinese podcasts offer revealing, moving and sometimes funny insights into life in the People’s Republic
From the archive
Shanghai, July 1921
Linda Jaivin
30 June 2021
When communist delegates met secretly in Shanghai in July 1921, their individual fates — as well as their party’s — were impossible to foresee
Books & Arts
Everything under heaven
Linda Jaivin
17 May 2021
How do you squeeze China’s history into 250 pages?
International
Engineers of human souls
Linda Jaivin
5 November 2015
Xi Jinping has made clear the Party’s views about the role of artists, writes
Linda Jaivin
. But it’s unclear what they will mean in practice
Books & Arts
Something in the water
Linda Jaivin
16 August 2011
Linda Jaivin
reviews the Chinese-language edition of Chan Koonchung’s controversial novel
The Fat Years
, now available in English