Louisa Lim

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Louisa C. Lim
In an online discussion in 2021
Born
Hong Kong
Other names林慕蓮
EducationUniversity of Melbourne (PhD)
OccupationJournalist
Websitewww.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 was born in Hong Kong to an ethnic Chinese Singaporean father and a British mother.

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

References

  1. ^ "Louisa Lim | Kellogg Institute For International Studies". kellogg.nd.edu.
  2. ^ "Little Red Podcast". 20 December 2016.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ "Louisa Lim". The Wheeler Centre.
  5. ^
    New York Times
    . Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  6. ^ Smith, Michael (20 May 2022). "Vanishing Hong Kong: 'I knew I was crossing a line but I didn't care'". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong". 6 June 2022.
  8. ^ "The 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  9. ^ Harmon, Steph (29 March 2023). "Stella prize 2023 shortlist: small publishers dominate Australian literary award". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists". Books+Publishing. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  11. ^ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  12. ^ "The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim – review". The Guardian. 24 July 2015.
  13. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (19 April 2022). "A Deeply Personal Look at the Past, Present and Future of Hong Kong". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  14. ^ "Louisa Lim's 'Indelible City' examines the U.K.'s handover of Hong Kong to China". NPR.
  15. ^ Johnson, Ian (18 August 2022). "Hong Kong from the Inside". The New York Review of Books – via nybooks.com.