About

Louisa Lim is the author of The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (Oxford University Press, 2014), which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. She is an award-winning journalist, who grew up in Hong Kong and reported from China for a decade for NPR and the BBC. Lim is now a Senior Lecturer in Audio Visual Journalism at the University of Melbourne and has recently been named an Orwell Fellow. She is the co-host of the Little Red Podcast, a monthly podcast focusing on China beyond the Beijing beltway.