Linda Jaivin is the author of eleven books, including The Monkey and the Dragon (Text Publishing 2001), Beijing (Reaktion Press, UK 2014) and Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World (a Quarterly Essay, published by Black Inc 2013). She is also an essayist and cultural commentator, literary and film translator from Chinese, co-editor with Geremie Barmé of New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices, and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University.