Trigger warning: This episode briefly mentions suicide at 01:15 and 15:45. This week, host Lijia Zhang speaks to Tania Branigan, current Foreign Leader Writer and former China Correspondent at The Guardian. [ … ]
Category: Books
Here Are 12 Feminist Books to Read from 20th Century China
BY EMILY MATSON China’s feminist activism has blossomed against all odds to become one of the country’s most dynamic social movements. However, this phenomenon didn’t emerge from a vacuum. Rather, [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #89: A Conversation with Liza Lin on Digital Surveillance in China
“When we first started writing the book in 2017, 2018, I would probably characterize Xinjiang as the true, perfect surveillance state … Now I think that you can apply that [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #86: Angela Hui about her memoir, Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
Growing up in the Welsh countryside and working at her family’s Chinese takeaway was anything but peaceful, writes Angela Hui in her memoir, Takeaway. With her parents at the helm, [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #83: A Map for the Missing, a Conversation with Belinda Huijuan Tang
This week, we talk to Belinda Huijuan Tang about her sweeping and tender debut novel, A Map for the Missing, which was recently longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel [ … ]
Book review: Li Zhang’s “Anxious China” humanizes the country’s mental health crisis
BY MIRANDA JARRETT Early on in my Chinese language studies a decade ago, I struggled to get a clear answer from my teachers on the most accurate way to state [ … ]
Book Excerpt: ‘China’s Millennial Digital Generation’ by Karen Ma
What impact did new technology have on China’s post-1980s indie film directors, many of whom came from the nation’s rural and backwater communities? In her new book “China’s Millennial Digital [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #76: A Conversation with Elaine Hsieh Chou on her debut novel, Disorientation
TIME STAMP, SPOILERS FOR DISORIENTATION BEGIN AT: 33:20 We’re delighted to have Elaine Hsieh Chou (pronounced “Shay-Chow”) come on the NüVoices podcast to discuss her debut novel, Disorientation, which came out [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #75: Dancing on Bones book launch, a conversation with Katie Stallard
This week, journalist and former foreign correspondent Katie Stallard joins the NüVoices podcast in a special, live stream recording to celebrate the launch of her new book Dancing on Bones: History [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #72: Messy Roots, a Conversation with Laura Gao
Graphic novelist and cartoonist Laura Gao joins the podcast this week to discuss her new memoir, Messy Roots: The Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American. Wuhan, China captured the world’s attention as [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #71: The Impossible City, a Conversation with Karen Cheung
This week’s episode is a conversation with Hong Konger Karen Cheung about her memoir The Impossible City which was released in February 2022. Skillfully blending reportage and personal writing, Karen takes readers [ … ]
Book Excerpt: ‘Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics’
In this new book Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics by scholars Ping Zhu and Hui Xiao, the two editors explore what it means to be a feminist in contemporary China, specifically looking [ … ]
NüVoices chair Joanna Chiu on the launch of CHINA UNBOUND
It’s launch day! China Unbound is now available as a book and ebook Audiobook on Audible for pre-download, coming Oct. 5 Dear NüVoices community: Thank you so much for your [ … ]
Book Excerpt: ‘More Than One Child’ by Shen Yang
BY SHEN YANG Shen Yang came to the world as an “excess child” (heihaizi) and does not legally exist. Born in Shandong China in 1986, she belongs to the millions of excess-birth children who violated [ … ]