Dear NüVoices community, We are so pleased to announce that we are officially recognized as a non-profit in the U.S. and donations from August 1, 2024 are now tax-deductible! NUVOICES [ … ]
Inside the Tongren World: Chinese Feminist Zine ‘Pubis’ Celebrates Queer Love
BY ANGEL SUN On a clear autumn night, dozens of Chinese queers and feminists gather – aptly in London’s Vagina Museum – to celebrate the birth of a new subversive [ … ]
Chinese American novelist Gish Jen exhumes her mother’s cruelty in an intimate reconciliation
BY HEATHER IRVINE Gish Jen’s latest book has been her hardest; she confesses so in its closing pages. But—”It’s what I need to do—as if I am finally burying you, [ … ]
Enter NüVoices Magazine’s 2026 creative non-fiction contest
Our creative non-fiction contest is officially open for submissions. Free to enter, our annual contest seeks original writing of up to 1,200 words in the genre of creative nonfiction by [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #127: Joanna Chiu and Jessie Lau on Media Entrepreneurship and the Power of Innovation
This week, NüVoices host and founder Joanna Chiu joins NüVoices editor and board member Jessie Lau to discuss their exciting new life chapters that extend their vision of NüVoices. In the [ … ]
Film Review: Beyond the Skies (云霄之上)
BY RICHARD C. This review is part of a series of reflections on Chinese films presented by the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival. Days before heading to the theatre to [ … ]
Hong Kong’s Struggle: Three Books Reflect on the City in Revolt
BY ANGEL SUN During the massive Hong Kong protests in 2019, “people braved endless rounds of tear gas, water cannons, and rubber and live bullets with peace marches, barricades, Molotov [ … ]
Women only make up a third of all speakers on China panels in Europe, research shows
BY EMMA BELMONTE AND IVANA KARÁSKOVÁ *This article was originally published in China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe on Nov. 19, 2025. The research represents a first pilot attempt by the [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #126: A Conversation with Maya Wang on the Future of Chinese Human Rights Advocacy
This week, NüVoices host and co-founder Joanna Chiu joins China human rights researcher Maya Wang to discuss the current state of China human rights advocacy amid Beijing’s growing transnational oppression and [ … ]
EVENT: Fall Fundraiser and Karaoke Meetup in NYC
DATE: November 23, 2025 TIME: 3 to 5 PM EST LOCATION: Accent Sisters 重音社 89 5th Ave #702, New York, NY 10002 RSVPs are required: https://luma.com/56ubfj19 Please join NüVoices in NYC for [ … ]
In ‘Foretokens,’ poet Sarah Howe parses the puzzle of her inheritance
BY HEATHER IRVINE Do we ever really understand the forces that make us? And if we do find the key to decoding our own personal histories, in uncovering where each [ … ]
Britain’s Diaspora-Led Hong Kong Film Festival Shines a Spotlight on the City’s Women Directors
BY JESSIE LAU From a delicate rendering of a young mother’s heartbreaking struggle with postpartum depression to a dreamy, experimental film that follows the nocturnal journeys of Hongkongers grappling with [ … ]
Virtual Workshop: Writing Across Borders: Crafting Essays on Science, Culture & Current Events with Yangyang Cheng
Link to purchase tickets: https://luma.com/tj9dmkbo Date: December 6, 2025 Time: 12 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. U.S. EST Location: Zoom Price: $40 USD regular admission / $20 USD discount rate for [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #125: A Conversation with Director Elizabeth Lo about her Documentary, ‘Mistress Dispeller’
This week, NüVoices host and board member Solarina Ho and Hong Kong filmmaker Elizabeth Lo discuss the director’s award-winning new documentary, Mistress Dispeller, which premiered at the 81st Venice International [ … ]
Hong Kong Law Students Pursue Justice Against AI Deepfakes
BY KELLY YU When women law students at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) learned a male classmate had made explicit pornographic images by manipulating their social media photos, they [ … ]
Film Review: Strangers When We Meet (朝云暮雨)
BY CLEO LI-SCHWARTZ This review is part of a series of reflections on Chinese films presented by the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival. Strangers When We Meet (朝云暮雨), first released [ … ]
The languages that make my family
BY JING-JING HU *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. As [ … ]
NüProfile: Translator Sarah Ye ties Shakespeare to Classical Chinese poetry
BY HEATHER IRVINE Elizabethan houses and town halls may seem slightly out of place in China. But in 2017, construction began on a replica of a medieval English town in [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #124: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: A Conversation with Award-winning Author Barbara Demick
This week, NüVoices editor and board member Jessie Lau speaks to returning guest, award-winning author and journalist Barbara Demick, about her new book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China [ … ]
Meng Han Hsieh’s film ‘The Test’ powerfully portrays Britain’s alienating naturalisation process
BY ANGEL SUN In The Test, I-Ling, a young East Asian woman, arrives to take the “Life in the United Kingdom Test,” which is required to become a British citizen, [ … ]
Carrying Chinese-ness Across South America
BY TAPPY LUNG *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. I’m [ … ]