Louisa Lim
Louisa Lim is an award-winning journalist and the author of two non-fiction books. Her latest Indelible City; Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (Riverhead, 2022) was a New York Times Notable Book and won a Taiwan Open Book award. It was shortlisted for five awards including the Stella Prize, a Walkley and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Lim spent a decade in China as a correspondent for the BBC and NPR, and is now an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Melbourne. Her first book The People's Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited (OUP, 2014) was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing. Lim co-hosts the Little Red Podcast, which has been downloaded more than a million times. She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, Ucross, Hawthornden and Varuna Writer’s House.
Journalist Cheng Lei and the University of Melbourne’s Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies Anthony J. Spires explore the domestic and global tensions shaping China’s future.