Louisa Lim is the author of The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Helen Bernstein Award. She covered China and Hong Kong for nearly two decades, as a correspondent for the BBC and NPR, and has also reported for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Raised in Hong Kong, she now teaches at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she lives with her two children.