Alison Broinowski
Alison Broinowski reviews 'The Monkey and the Dragon' by Linda Jaivin
Alison Broinowski
Thursday, 01 November 2001
How seriously do we take an author who, in her mid-forties, writes about ‘street cred’, calls a department store ‘humungous’ and, discussing Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, asks: ‘Bourgeois decadence? Hel-lo.’? Linda Jaivin studied one of the world’s most difficult languages in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China, and, as a scholar and journalist, published perceptive analyses of China. Then she turned to fiction and biography.
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Published in
November 2001, no. 236