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Louisa Lim found her path into journalism after graduating with a degree in Modern Chinese studies from Leeds University in England. She worked as an editor, polisher, and translator at a state-run publishing company in China, a job that helped her strengthen her Chinese. Simultaneously, she began writing for a magazine and soon realized her talents fit perfectly with journalism.

In 1995, Lim moved to Hong Kong and worked at the Eastern Express newspaper until its demise six months later and then for TVB Pearl, the local television station. Eventually Lim joined the BBC, working first for five years at the World Service in London, and then as a correspondent at the BBC in Beijing for almost three years.

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	Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong 4.09 avg rating — 1,478 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited 4.25 avg rating — 1,409 ratings — published 2014 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Speaking in Oxford

I'll be speaking at Waterstones in Oxford on Monday August 3rd at 7pm. Please come along!

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A Spool of Blue Thread

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An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

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“our amnesia is a state-sponsored sport.”
― Louisa Lim, The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited

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“On the 20th anniversary of the crackdown, when three shifts of people a day were sharing the watching responsibilities, she decided it was too good an opportunity to miss. She photocopied two articles she had written and distributed them to all the policemen and plainclothes agents, telling them, “You guys are the ones watching me, but you don’t know why you’re watching me, do you? I’ll give you this information so you know why.” She discovered that some of them had no idea what had happened on June 4th, and one—a young female student from the Police Academy—even abandoned her post in disgust after discovering the reason she was there. “There is nothing we can do about this,” another watcher told her. “We were sent here by our superiors. They’re all messed up. Their brains are all addled.”
― Louisa Lim, The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited

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“One of the tragedies of discourse in China, Zhang believes, is that grey areas have been swallowed up by black-and-white moral absolutism. Rule by the emperor, or the strongman, has become the only mode of governance that people recognize: Obey or be crushed, for there is no alternative. Even the students, while clamoring for democracy, had become mini-dictators of the world that they had created with their wordy titles, petty denunciations, and fervid inner-court power struggles.”
― Louisa Lim, The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited

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Oct 29, 2014 07:27AM

It was great fun meeting you too, and I'm enjoying following you on Twitter as well. I just thought of you the other day as a matter of fact. Here in Los Angeles, we're having a Chinese Film Festival. The opening film was called Red Amnesia. It is about the ripples created by the Cultural Revolution -- not Tiananmen -- but I thought of you just the same.

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