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I knew Linda Jaivin, one of the writers featured in "China: Past, Present, Future", the radio podcast on Australia's ABC. We met in Beijing in 1976. She married one of my classmates, the China scholar Geremie Barmé. Though they've since separated, I believe, and he lives somewhere in the wilds of New Zealand. Though none of this is mentioned in the Wiki-entry.
This is a really good talk, from people that really know China. I've been with Chinna and about China since 1976, still live in the Hong Kong part of China, but I still learned stuff. Not that I agreed with every single thing, mind. But still, very good, and some wonderful insights.
From the show notes:
To deal with China as a major trading partner, and also a national security threat requires understanding the history that made China what it is today.
That history is shaped by resistance and different waves of uprising. How have governments dealt with these movements? How do they influence politics today?
China: Past, Present, Future was recorded live at the 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival.
Listen to Big Ideas — Behrouz Boochani and Arnold Zable: The language of resistance
Speakers
Linda Jaivin
Australian author, cultural commentator, essayist and translator
Author of Bombard the Headquarters! China's Cultural Revolution
Louisa Lim
Award-winning journalist who reported from China for a decade for NPR and the BBC
Author of Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
Edward Wong
American journalist and diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times
Author of At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China
Peter Hartcher (host)
Australian journalist and the Political and International Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald
Author of Red Zone: China's Challenge and Australia's Future.
