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 [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #123: Grace Shao, China’s AI boom and the myth of US-China race
This week, Tiffany Ap speaks with Grace Shao on the causes and development of AI in China. In this episode, Grace Shao walks us through the divergent approaches to AI [ … ]
Meet the Hong Kong migrant mums swapping the workplace for home life
BY ANGEL SUN *This feature was originally published in Initium Media on 26 July 2025. It has been edited and translated from Chinese into English by the author. Illustration: Angel [ … ]
Overseas Chinese feminists call on Beijing to protect women from digital violence
BY KELLY YU Overseas Chinese feminists in London are calling on the Beijing government to strengthen protections against digital violence and the sexual exploitation of women, in the wake of [ … ]
How a health scare turned a ‘boring as hell’ finance worker into a feminist comedian
BY MIYA YONGER SHEN It’s been three years since Kate Hu left her job as a quantitative analyst in finance to pursue stand-up comedy, a monumental career change that her [ … ]