Louisa Lim's Blog
July 30, 2015
Speaking in Oxford
I'll be speaking at Waterstones in Oxford on Monday August 3rd at 7pm. Please come along!
July 21, 2015
How I Wrote the Book... in the Guardian
I didn’t want to write this book. Even the thought of it scared me, but it hammered away at my conscience. When I finally gave in, I took elaborate precautions. After signing a book deal, I made my editor promise not to contact me again until I got in touch with him. I warned my husband never to talk about the book at home. Then, to do the actual writing, I bought a computer that had never had online access and kept it locked in a safe in my bedroom.
Whole piece is here:
Whole piece is here:
April 27, 2015
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
It's a great honour to be shortlisted for the Orwell prize, a British prize for works that come closest to George Orwell's ambition to "make political writing into an art."
Here's the that ran in the British newspaper, the Telegraph.
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Here's the that ran in the British newspaper, the Telegraph.
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Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
It's a great honour to be shortlisted for the Orwell prize, a British prize for works that come closest to George Orwell's ambition to "make political writing into an art."
Here's the that ran in the British newspaper, the Telegraph.
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Here's the that ran in the British newspaper, the Telegraph.
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December 26, 2014
Recommended by the Owner of Politics and Prose!
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Sent to my by an eagle-eyed reader at one of the best independent bookstores in the land, Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington DC. Truly an honour to be Lissa's top pick!
>Sent to my by an eagle-eyed reader at one of the best independent bookstores in the land, Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington DC. Truly an honour to be Lissa's top pick!
Recommended by the Owner of Politics and Prose!
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Sent to my by an eagle-eyed reader at one of the best independent bookstores in the land, Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington DC. Truly an honour to be Lissa's top pick!
>Sent to my by an eagle-eyed reader at one of the best independent bookstores in the land, Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington DC. Truly an honour to be Lissa's top pick!
December 4, 2014
The Economist's Books of the Year List
Delighted to be on The Economist's Books of the Year list, alongside some very big names indeed. Here's what they said:
The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited. By Louisa Lim. Oxford University Press; 248 pages; $24.95 and £16.99.
Twenty-five years after the bloodshed in Beijing, new details keep emerging. This reconstruction, by a correspondent for America’s National Public Radio, is as important for Western readers as it is for the new Chinese generation that has grown up since 1989 and knows little of what happened.
And there's the link
The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited. By Louisa Lim. Oxford University Press; 248 pages; $24.95 and £16.99.
Twenty-five years after the bloodshed in Beijing, new details keep emerging. This reconstruction, by a correspondent for America’s National Public Radio, is as important for Western readers as it is for the new Chinese generation that has grown up since 1989 and knows little of what happened.
And there's the link
November 14, 2014
Learning to Remember: Huffpo Review
Nice review of People's Republic of Amnesia
in the , which calls the book "courageous and insightful".
"If George Orwell were still alive, maybe he would have regretted naming his book 1984 instead of 1989. But as Orwell noted in 1984, the year would not have mattered, for no one in Oceania remembered the date anymore. Likewise, very few in China care to remember about the fateful date of June 4, 1989.
in the , which calls the book "courageous and insightful".
"If George Orwell were still alive, maybe he would have regretted naming his book 1984 instead of 1989. But as Orwell noted in 1984, the year would not have mattered, for no one in Oceania remembered the date anymore. Likewise, very few in China care to remember about the fateful date of June 4, 1989.
