Louisa Lim
@louisalim.bsky.social
Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
ICYMI: Really nice piece examining Hong Kong writers including Dorothy Tse (her latest is CITY LIKE WATER), Ysabelle Cheung (PATCHWORK DOLLS), Gigi L. Leung (EVERYDAY MOVEMENT), Lau Yee-wa (TONGUELESS), and more. By @louisalim.bsky.social:
Scarred in Hong Kong | Louisa Lim
Recent fiction by Hong Kong writers explores life in a society traumatized by ever-tightening Chinese national security laws that suppress political discussion and artistic freedom.
nybooks.com
Fascinating essay by Louisa Lim in latest @nybooks.com on new Hong Kong “scar” literature. The author has written two of the best books on Hong Kong / China: Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia both highly recommended www.nybooks.com/articles/202... @louisalim.bsky.social #Booksky
I can't remember when an issue of @nybooks.com had a TOC that grabbed me the way the latest does: 3 authors who are totally different but all ones I enjoy reading & always learn from: Lynn Hunt, Adam Hochschild, & w/ a stunningly good NYRB debut @louisalim.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Scarred in Hong Kong | Louisa Lim
Recent fiction by Hong Kong writers explores life in a society traumatized by ever-tightening Chinese national security laws that suppress political discussion and artistic freedom.
nybooks.com
@louisalim.bsky.social writes in The New York Review in 'Scarred in Hong Kong' about how the latest crop of Hong Kong fiction writers explore the post-2xNSL city. tinyurl.com/363sk7sd #HongKong #NSL #CCP
Scarred in Hong Kong | Louisa Lim
Recent fiction by Hong Kong writers explores life in a society traumatized by ever-tightening Chinese national security laws that suppress political discussion and artistic freedom.
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It was great to catch up w/ @louisalim.bsky.social (a talented writer & friend) after a long time (first meet up since 2019) at the @asianstudies.org meetings & she was nice enough to snap this phot of me showing off an advance copy of my tiny book that comes Tuesday everywhere except North America
"In our digital age, as completely erasing memory seems less and less feasible, an increasingly attractive solution for autocrats is to proactively refashion narratives in a brazen way that suits the state's objectives." Victoria Jones & @jwassers.bsky.social on history in Hong Kong (and the US).
Beijing spins its narrative of history in today's Hong Kong
Museum exhibit extols suppression of 2019 protests, celebrates National Security Law
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Just started reading Louisa Lim’s « Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong»: « The police, instead of being guarantors of security, were behaving like violent thugs… . Far from protecting reporters as civilians, the police were singling [journalists] out for attack. » Trump=PRC
Americans should read this book. It's eerily relevant. Indelible City by Louisa Lim
Everyone has their favorite historical parallels to the rising authoritarianism right now in America. The one I find myself looking to most is Hong Kong/China. Particularly personified by two excellent books from journalist @louisalim.bsky.social
Labor Day afternoon cappuccino and a book. The way it should be.
What a list to be in! Thank you @georgiarybanks.bsky.social
Georgia Reads@georgiarybanks.bsky.social · last yr.For the cast: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders For slowing down: The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr Orbital, Samantha Harvey For getting lost in: James, Pervical Everett Indelible City, Louisa Lim Cautious recc: Chernobyl Prayer, Svetlana Alexievich
Amazing authors supported YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION by providing praise which appeared on the back cover (known as blurbs). We want to thank each of them, starting with @louisalim.bsky.social! Thank you Louisa — it meant the world to us to get your thumbs up!
Session 3: @sophtree.bsky.social, @louisalim.bsky.social & @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social about resistance, literature as power & literature as activism. #StellaDayOut
Looking forward to one of the best literary events of the year! 🥳 #StellaDayOut is happening this month & here in Melbourne, it's on 18th of Aug 2025 (Mon). Feat. @clairegcoleman.bsky.social @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social @louisalim.bsky.social Melbourne – Stella share.google/gQyQRF7f7nOf...
Melbourne – Stella
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Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.
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#China: Today, Sebastien Lai, son of #HongKong writer and media publisher #JimmyLai, addressed the UN Human Rights Council as a representative of PEN International and called for his father's release. Watch his statement here🔽
China-Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai’s son calls for his father’s release at the UN Human Rights Council — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
18 June 2025: Today, Jimmy Lai’s son, Sebastien Lai, addressed the 59th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) as a representative of PEN International during an Interactive Dialogue...
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Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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On April 15, 27-year-old Mei Shilin (梅世林) put up three pro-democracy banners on an overpass in China’s southwestern Sichuan province. Authorities reportedly detained Mei soon afterward, and his current whereabouts are unknown.
Another ‘Bridge Man’ in China Forcibly Disappeared
On April 15, Mei Shilin put up three banners on an overpass outside Chengdu’s Chadianzi Metro Station in China’s southwestern Sichuan province. The authorities reportedly detained Mei soon afterward. ...
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Periodic reminder and proof that Hong Kong is NOT part of the People's Republic of Amnesia. (Cc. @louisalim.bsky.social)
#MilkTeaAlliance Galleries @mtamuseum.bsky.social · last yr.กิจกรรมล่าสุดของพวกเรา สนับสนุน #พันธมิตรชานม และพันธมิตร —— More: mtag.info/gal2live Original tweet by @FY4Chan Link: twitter.com/1427500444327104514/status/1908762210631115020
I was at HKU yesterday and this is what the “democracy wall” looks like now. It has the same name. And cameras though. But nothing else
The piece you didn't know you needed to read.
Trump’s Oval Office Is an Interior Designer’s Nightmare
Has he never heard of negative space?
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
More than BTW, I want so much for Hong Kong to not become part of the People's Republic of Amnesia. And believe it still isn't. With regards to the Tiananmen Square Massacre and also the events that @louisalim.bsky.social wrote about in her "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong".
YTSL@ytsl.bsky.social · 2y ago(Skipping 126-128 -- sorry!) 129. CHINA A non-fiction work about a national tragedy and an unhealed wound: specifically, the Tiananmen Square Massacre of unarmed civilians by the People's Liberation Army on June 4th, 1989, and its expunging from collective memory by the Chinese Communist Party.
This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK. Extraordinary.
Just thinking about when the Atlanta shootings happened and Asian American journalists were told they were too biased to cover it. Anyhow, there's many reasons that I helped start an Asian American magazine, but telling our stories on our own terms is one of them.
Aura Bogado@aurabogado.bsky.social · 2y agoYears ago a white editor* asked if I was biased about immigration stories because I'm an immigrant. I've been asked a version of this question dozens of times since. The driving idea is that people who embody difference introduce bias; it's the framework that maintains white supremacy in newsrooms.
Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)
The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
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Zelensky has now responded to his Oval Office meeting with this series of tweeted thanks to world leaders reaching out in consolation.
From @louisalim.bsky.social's "Indelible City": "At the end of July, ...local triads in Yuen Long... ran amok inside a subway station... [D]ressed in white T-shirts, [they] were looking for black-clad protestors but ended up beating anyone in their path. The police did not arrive for 35 minutes..."
Georgia Reads@georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 2y ago96. HONG KONG Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim A compelling and personal account of pro-democracy protests, local history, global politics and daily life in Hong Kong Had me hooked from the very start Related pod: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #ReadTheWorld
