Louisa Lim
Louisa C. Lim | |
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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.
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
- 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.
- ^ 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.