Louisa Lim
Journalist
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Louisa C. Lim is a journalist and author.[1] She is the co-host of The Little Red Podcast, an award-winning podcast covering China.[2]
Louisa C. Lim | |
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In an online discussion in 2021 | |
| Born | Hong Kong |
| Other names | 林慕蓮 |
| Education | Monash University (PhD) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Website | www |
Lim holds a PhD in journalism from Monash University. Her thesis is titled In Search of the King of Kowloon: Hong Kong’s Identity Crisis and the Media Creation of an Icon.[3] She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne where she teaches audio journalism and podcasting.[4]
Lim was born in London to an ethnic Chinese Singaporean father and a British mother.[5][6] She worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC and NPR in China for a decade, from 2003 to 2013. She has stated that her level of speaking Cantonese was "shamefully basic" but she identifies as a Hong Konger regardless.[5]
The People's Republic of Amnesia was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.[7] Indelible City was shortlisted for the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction,[8] the 2023 Stella Prize[9] and the 2023 Nonfiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards,[10] and also for the Nonfiction Award at the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.[11] It won the 2024 OpenBook award in Taiwan for a work in translation.
Books
- The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (Oxford University Press, 2014)[12]
- Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (Riverhead Books, 2022)[13][14][15]
