Louisa Lim

Journalist

Louisa C. Lim
Born	Hong Kong
Other names	林慕蓮
Education	University of Melbourne (PhD)
Occupation	Journalist
Website	https://www.louisalim.com

Louisa C. Lim is a journalist and author.^[1] She is the co-host of The Little Red Podcast, a podcast covering China.^[2]

Lim holds a PhD in journalism from the University of Melbourne. 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 a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne where she teaches audio journalism and podcasting.^[4]

Lim is of Eurasian ancestry.^[5] She has heritage from an ethnic Chinese Singaporean father and a British mother.^[6] She worked as a journalist, living in China for around 10 years, and having experience working for BBC and National Public Radio (NPR). 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]

Books

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (Riverhead Books, 2022)^[12]^[13]^[14]
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (Oxford University Press, 2014)^[15]

References

^ "Louisa Lim | Kellogg Institute For International Studies". kellogg.nd.edu.
^ "Little Red Podcast". December 20, 2016.
^ Lim, Louisa C. (2021), In Search of the King of Kowloon; Hong Kong's Identity Crisis and the Media Creation of an Icon, University of Melbourne, retrieved 15 December 2022
^ "Louisa Lim". The Wheeler Centre.
^ ^a ^b Qin, Amy (2022-05-18). "In Hong Kong, the Search for a Single Identity". New York Times. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
^ Smith, Michael (2022-05-20). "Vanishing Hong Kong: 'I knew I was crossing a line but I didn't care'". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
^ "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong". 6 June 2022.
^ "The 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
^ Harmon, Steph (2023-03-29). "Stella prize 2023 shortlist: small publishers dominate Australian literary award". The Guardian. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists". Books+Publishing. 2023-08-02. Retrieved 2023-08-02.
^ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2023-10-26. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
^ Szalai, Jennifer (April 19, 2022). "A Deeply Personal Look at the Past, Present and Future of Hong Kong". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
^ "Louisa Lim's 'Indelible City' examines the U.K.'s handover of Hong Kong to China". NPR.
^ Johnson, Ian (August 18, 2022). "Hong Kong from the Inside". The New York Review of Books – via nybooks.com.
^ "The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim – review". The Guardian. July 24, 2015.