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My intrepid former PhD student, Pete Connolly, has packed lifetimes of adventures into his half century (or so) on the planet. The latest is wonderful - kayaking 1500km to raise money for Yambali, a village in PNG wiped off the map by a mudslide gofund.me/58424e5e

I love Chinese place names in Australia. Constant tension between meaning and phonetics sometimes resolved perfectly. The much maligned Canberra suburb of Gungahlin is rendered as Gan Ga Lin 尴尬林 "The Forest of Embarrassment" h/t Annie Ren

It's a privilege to be invited to a parliamentary inquiry...and have it made into a vid by stranger. Thanks!

The author’s copies of my book arrived today! And then I felt so nervous I carefully put them back in the box so I wouldn’t have to look at them or think about the nervousness of having this thing out there in the world for awhile

This month, Louisa Lim is flying solo. An engrossing conversation with two of Hong Kong's most celebrated authors--Gigi Leung Lee-chi and Lau Yeewa, one choosing exile in Taiwan, the other choosing to write within the ever-shrinking limits of the SAR. omny.fm/shows/the-litt…

I’m so so so so so proud of this episode

A great piece about PRC EV subsidies from my favorite data nerds… Real China Charts realchinacharts.com/?r=2dbq

澳洲是太平洋大家庭的一部分，我們也持續致力於確保太平洋島國及其所屬區域的繁榮與韌性。 很高興澳洲知名的太平洋問題專家 Dr Graeme Smith 來台訪問，分享他對澳洲政府太平洋政策優先事項的觀察與看法。他受 #政治大學 及 #中山大學 邀請，會進行2場專題演講。歡迎有興趣的朋友報名參加。（1/2）

If you want to know how the international student caps and all skilled migration policies have messed up universities’ internal operations, check out my story with Sherry Huang The Saturday Paper , where we spoke to students who got caught in this chaos: thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/immigrati…

You may never have heard of fish maw 魚鰾, dried swim bladder, which sells for $150K per kg. That makes it 'the cocaine of the seas', bringing huge impacts to the Kikori Delta in PNG. Walkley Foundation winner Jo Chandler joins Louisa Lim & I for a mesmerising tale omny.fm/shows/the-litt…

An episode from the frontline of China’s gender war. Women are refusing to marry, and living lives far from Chairman Xi’s dream of a neo-Confucian society. Louisa Lim & I are joined by Elle China’s Chloe Mofei Shen & Qiqi Huang podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the…

Em, you know there were 678k Australian users on the app before the TikTok refugee trend right? You know over 20 politicians already owned their accounts on RedNote last year for elections right? You know there was a big misinformation issue on RedNote during the Voice right?

NEW: last year I spent a few months researching on Xiaohongshu/RedNote, and I’m glad that after almost two months of academic-style editing, it’s out on The ANU’s The China Story today: thechinastory.org/whos-afraid-of…

From cutting trees in Qing Dynasty to using AI for fortune telling… Thanks to Tristan Brown and Haoyang Zhai Faculty of Arts for sharing the great insights! More surprises from LRP in 2025 Louisa Lim Graeme Smith 史林 Andy Hazel Little Red Podcast

So thrilled to listen to the legendary Solomon Islander Prof Transform Aqorau opening #PIPSA2025

What an all star cast! Three of my Pacific heroes - Solly Middleby, Anna Naupa and Grant Wyeth. Wow! #PIPSA2025

Honoured to be giving testimony at this hearing on Thursday (wee hours of Friday in Canberra) with two legitimate academic stars - Lynn Kuok & Dr. Prashanth Parameswaran. Tune in! uscc.gov/hearings/cross…

How do Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands factor into Chinese strategic thinking and China's diplomatic and soft power initiatives? What is China's regional economic and security engagement? Learn more at our hearing tomorrow🧵 uscc.gov/hearings/cross…

In our latest bad dinner party miniseries - it's Little Red Podcast year of belief, sex and death - China's boom in psychiatry, fully approved by the CCP. To ask why Xi is into therapy, Louisa Lim & I are joined by Hsuan-Ying Huang, Barclay & Yiying Xiong omny.fm/shows/the-litt…

If you read one book about China this year, make it this one! Extravagantly researched masterpiece from Joseph Torigian