Louisa Lim will speak about the challenges of conducting a work of investigative journalism under the ever-present gaze of China’s security apparatus. Louisa Lim is the Howard R. Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan. She is a former China correspondent for NPR and the BBC. Her book, "The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited" was named one of the Economist’s best books of 2014 and was long-listed for the Lionel Gelber Award for the best non-fiction book on foreign affairs in the world.

About the Speaker: Louisa Lim was NPR’s China correspondent when she wrote a book about the most sensitive of all political issues in China: the crackdown following the Tiananmen movement in 1989, when the Chinese army opened fire on civilians, killing hundreds of people.

Lecture free and open to the public.
Presented by the The Department of Communication Studies & The Howard R. Marsh Center