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Louisa Lim

@louisalim.bsky.social
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Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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:
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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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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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...
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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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Befria Hongkong @liberatehk.se · 08/05/2026
@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
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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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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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
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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"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).
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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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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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
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Booze, Food, Travel @boozefoodtravel.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Americans should read this book. It's eerily relevant. Indelible City by Louisa Lim
Indelible City by Louisa Lim
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Craig Duffy @pinkcowduffy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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
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THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF AMNESIA
TIANANMEN REVISITED香港人心油
Indelible City
LOUISA LIM
Dispossession and Defiance
IN HONG KONG
"A truly extraordinary elegy" - Al WEIWEI
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Booze, Food, Travel @boozefoodtravel.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Labor Day afternoon cappuccino and a book. The way it should be.
Cappuccino and Indelible City by Louisa Lim
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Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
What a list to be in! Thank you @georgiarybanks.bsky.social
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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!
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Kristin Carao @mikaelakristin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Session 3: @sophtree.bsky.social, @louisalim.bsky.social & @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social about resistance, literature as power & literature as activism. #StellaDayOut
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Kristin Carao @mikaelakristin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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...
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Melbourne – Stella
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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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NPR @npr.org · 27/07/2025
Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities. Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
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Andy Hazel @andyhazel.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A great, and quietly shocking, episode of @littleredpodcast.bsky.social. @louisalim.bsky.social, @graemeksmith.bsky.social @wingkuang.bsky.social
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Karma Chameleon: The CCP turns to Buddhism
Podcast Episode · The Little Red Podcast · 22/07/2025 · 49m
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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
#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🔽
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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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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 02/05/2025
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...
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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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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/04/2025
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.
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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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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Periodic reminder and proof that Hong Kong is NOT part of the People's Republic of Amnesia. (Cc. @louisalim.bsky.social)
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Ilaria Maria Sala @ilariamariasala.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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
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Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The piece you didn't know you needed to read.
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Trump’s Oval Office Is an Interior Designer’s Nightmare
Has he never heard of negative space?
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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...
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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".
64 scrawled on a reflective surface. Seen in Hong Kong in February, 2025.721, 831, 101 scrawled on a wall in Hong Kong. Photo taken on March 13th 2020 -- five years ago.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK. Extraordinary.
The mail on Sunday headline which reads Now Stop The State Visit for Bully Trump
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Melissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/02/2025
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.)
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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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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 28/02/2025
Zelensky has now responded to his Oval Office meeting with this series of tweeted thanks to world leaders reaching out in consolation.
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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..."
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Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
NYT: #Trump’s New Crackdown on #China Is Just Beginning, with a clamp down on Chinese investment & access to technology. But the wild card may be the president himself. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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Trump’s New Crackdown on China Is Just Beginning
The administration is positioning itself to clamp down on Chinese investment and access to technology. But the wild card may be the president himself.
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Silvia Montaña @silmonn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A viral image on Reddit and TikTok seen in London 👍
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Leiden University Libraries established the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection, to collect, preserve, and make accessible primary source material and scholarship on the Chinese queer experience, and to facilitate collaboration between academics, activists, and archivists. See edu.nl/qyewc for details.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...
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Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
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Abdullah Akilah @abdullahakilah.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
@louisalim.bsky.social belated Xmas present exchange means I have some reading to do
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The 51st @51st.news · 06/02/2025
Another thing we need to do: grow our newsletter subscribers! It costs $0 to sign up but helps us a ton. Plus, you get curated, fact-checked, algorithm-free news. A win-win. 51st.news/signup
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Information with representation, by and for D.C. residents. A worker-led, independent nonprofit newsroom.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The folks overseeing the General Services Administration have disabled the spoon emoji on its videoconferencing platform because employees were using the symbol yesterday to mock the Elon Musk-influenced "Fork in the Road" resignation offer. Goodnight 🥄.
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Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“For all practical purposes, I’d call that a coup”: senator Ron Wyden
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Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) @boldprogressives.org · 04/02/2025
NEW: After consulting former Treasury staff, the Progressive Change Institute just released a memo outlining the worst case scenarios of Musk's hostile takeover. This is nothing more than an economic coup.
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The Little Red Podcast @littleredpodcast.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Here's a sneak peak from our upcoming episode to be released this week. Historian @tristangbrown.bsky.social discusses how the Qing dynasty used feng shui to maintain peace and legitimacy.
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The word "systemic" is on the banned list, so if I study systemic inflammation & health, flagged. If I study political science, flagged. If I study trauma, flagged. Keep in mind that the largest mental health provider in the country is the Veteran's Administration, but we can't study trauma now?
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
These keywords could show up in the text of ANY grant involving human participants. If you say you're going to study men and women, you get flagged. If you say you're going to control for socioeconomic status - totally standard practice - you get flagged. Disability? Flagged.
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
And you thought the rest of the news was bad
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 04/02/2025
Elon Musk's goal seems to amount to a coup over the US administrative state; Musk said he "deleted" the Direct File tax department, but that may not be true (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The Pentagon is evicting the New York Times, NPR and NBC news from their long-held office space and replacing them with organizations such as One America News and Breitbart. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Pentagon removes major media outlets, including NBC News, from dedicated workstations as part of a new 'rotation program'
NBC News, The New York Times, NPR and Politico must vacate their office spaces in two weeks for other news organizations — including at least one that did not request to be added.
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The Little Red Podcast @littleredpodcast.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Follow our Little Red Podcast starter pack here on BlueSky with our guests from over 100 episodes. go.bsky.app/SrcvmU3
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