Louisa Lim

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

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". She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne where she teaches audio journalism and podcasting.

Lim was born in Hong Kong to an ethnic Chinese Singaporean father and a British mother. 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.

The People's Republic of Amnesia was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Indelible City was shortlisted for the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction,  the 2023 Stella Prize and the 2023 Nonfiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards and also for the Nonfiction Award at the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Books

 * Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (Riverhead Books, 2022)
 * The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (Oxford University Press, 2014)