A Conversation on China with Louisa Lim

A Conversation on China with Professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan, and NPR's former China Correspondent, Louisa Lim. Moderated by Loren Jenkins. 

CRMS Barn, 500 Holden Way, Carbondale

Wednesday, March 4th, 5:30pm - 6:30pm. Doors open at 5pm. 

$15 non-members / $10 APR members. Tickets can be purchased on-line by clicking here, by calling (970) 920-9000, or purchased at the door ($15 day of).

*Students get in free with valid student ID!

About Louisa Lim:

Louisa Lim is an award-winning journalist who was NPR’s China Correspondent from February 2006 to 2014. Based in Shanghai, she has reported across Asia. She made a very rare reporting trip to North Korea, has covered illegal abortions in Guangxi province, and worked on a major multimedia series on religion in China titled New Believers: A Religious Revolution in China. Lim and her NPR teams have won multiple awards, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, a Peabody, and two Edward R. Murrow awards, for coverage of the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Prior to joining NPR, Lim worked for the World Service in London, and then as a correspondent at the BBC in Beijing. In 2013, Lim attended the University of Michigan as a Knight-Wallace Fellow. She is the author of The People’s Republic of Amnesia, released in May 2014. The book has been long listed for the Lionel Gelber Prize, which awards the best non-fiction book in the world.

She lives with her husband and two children in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she is currently a professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan. Lim recommends Shanghai traveler’s stop by a branch of her husband's Yunnan restaurant, Southern Barbarian, where they can snack on deep fried bumblebees, a specialty from southwest China.