Louisa Lim
Louisa C. Lim | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hong Kong |
| Other names | Lâm mộ liên |
| Education | University of Melbourne(PhD) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Website | https://www.louisalim.com |
Louisa C. Limis a journalist and author.[1]She is the co-host ofThe Little Red Podcast,a podcast covering China.[2]
Lim holds a PhD in journalism from theUniversity 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.[5][6]She worked as a journalist, living in China for around 10 years, and having experience working forBBCandNational Public Radio(NPR). She has stated that her level of speakingCantonesewas "shamefully basic" but she identifies as a Hong Konger regardless.[5]
The People's Republic of Amnesiawas shortlisted for theOrwell Prizeand the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.[7]Indelible Citywas shortlisted for the 2023Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction,[8]the 2023Stella Prize[9]and the 2023 Nonfiction Book Award at theQueensland Literary Awards[10]and also for the Nonfiction Award at the 2023Prime Minister's Literary Awards.[11]
Books
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^"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,retrieved15 December2022
- ^"Louisa Lim".The Wheeler Centre.
- ^abQin, Amy (2022-05-18)."In Hong Kong, the Search for a Single Identity".New York Times.Retrieved2022-06-08.
- ^Smith, Michael (2022-05-20)."Vanishing Hong Kong: 'I knew I was crossing a line but I didn't care'".Australian Financial Review.Retrieved2022-06-08.
- ^"Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong".6 June 2022.
- ^"The 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards".The Wheeler Centre.Retrieved2022-12-14.
- ^Harmon, Steph (2023-03-29)."Stella prize 2023 shortlist: small publishers dominate Australian literary award".The Guardian.Retrieved2023-03-30.
- ^"Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists".Books+Publishing. 2023-08-02.Retrieved2023-08-02.
- ^"Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced".Books+Publishing. 2023-10-26.Retrieved2023-10-26.
- ^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.
External links
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- Living people
- University of Melbourne alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
- Australian women journalists
- 21st-century non-fiction writers
- Australian women podcasters
- Australian people of Singaporean descent
- Australian people of British descent
- Australian people of Chinese descent
- BBC people
- NPR personalities
- Australian expatriates in China
- Australian podcasters