In Popular Culture
Around the 1990s, Asiapac Books published a comic book (ISBN 981-229-067-2) based on Lim's life. It was written by Clara Show and illustrated by Chu Yi Min.
In 1997, Singapore's Chinese-language television channel TCS Eighth Frequency (now MediaCorp Channel 8) aired a television drama, The Price of Peace, about the Japanese occupation of Singapore. Lim appeared as a semi-fictional protagonist in the drama, and was portrayed by actor Rayson Tan. An English-dubbed version of the drama was run on the English-language channel TCS Fifth Frequency (now MediaCorp Channel 5) in 1999.
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