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 [ … ]
Category: NüStories Magazine
NüStories is a magazine of ideas that aims to highlight minority voices on China subjects
Film Review: The Shadowless Tower (白塔之光)
BY CLEO LI-SCHWARTZ This review is part of a series of reflections on Chinese films presented by the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival. Korean-Chinese director Lu Zhang’s 2023 film The [ … ]
Living in London, Belonging Nowhere
BY Pi3 *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 still [ … ]
Homecoming at the Cemetery
BY TARA SUN VANACORE *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 work in US policy – being Chinese is now an occupational hazard
BY FRANCES ZHU HISGEN *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. [ … ]
Book Excerpt: ‘Chinese And Any Other Asian’ by Anna Sulan Masing
BY ANNA SULAN MASING Read an exclusive excerpt from “Chinese And Any Other Asian” by Anna Sulan Masing. Photo credit: Patricia Niven. Gender I became acutely aware about my racialised place [ … ]
Essay by a Manchu girl in Tibet: Finding My Chinese Identity
Note: This essay is by a contributor based in China who has been anonymised due to safety concerns. The piece has been translated from Mandarin into English (see original below) [ … ]
Book Excerpt: ‘I Am Not a Tourist’ by Daisy J. Hung
Read an exclusive excerpt from “I Am Not a Tourist: Conversations on Being British Chinese” by Daisy J. Hung (Published by HQ, HarperCollins), out now: Portraits, plaques and memorials will [ … ]
A trip to the supermarket
BY N. J. Chan *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. Photo: [ … ]
Mother Tongue
BY KIM GORDON *Editors 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. Photo: [ … ]
In queer diaspora, my fear leaks through
BY ANRAN ZHENG *Editors 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. Photo: [ … ]
Exhibition: Ways of Remembering Hong Kong
For Hongkongers, remembering is an act of resistance. This month, members of the Hong Kong Action Archives (HKAA), a nonprofit consisting of Hong Kong and Taiwanese community archivists, launched an [ … ]
Beijing International Film Festival brings Chinese films to a UK audience
This week marks the end of the 15th annual Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF), which aims to bring Chinese films to global audiences and foster greater diversity in the film [ … ]
NüProfile: Amy Ng on playwriting and her show ‘Shanghai Dolls’ – a feminist retelling of famous female figures in the Cultural Revolution
When two penniless actresses meet in Shanghai at auditions for Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, they quickly become inseparable. But as political upheaval rips through China, their tumultuous friendship will alter not [ … ]
‘Beauty Queen’: Excerpt from Anne Anlin Cheng’s Memoir ‘Ordinary Disasters’
Read an exclusive excerpt from “Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority” by Anne Anlin Cheng, which debuted in September 2024 and was published by Pantheon. Photo: Anne [ … ]
I am a Midwestern Chinese Girl
BY JENNA WANG *Editor’s note: The following story won 2nd prize in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. As [ … ]
What You Know (And Didn’t Know)
BY CHRIS YITAO SHEN *Editor’s note: The following story won 3rd prize in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. Photo: [ … ]
“You need glasses for Asian faces.”
BY JULIETTE YU-MING LIZERAY *Editor’s note: The following story won 1st prize in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more [ … ]
Chinese Female Stand-Up Comedians and their Prisoner’s Dilemma
BY QINGBING CHEN *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. While [ … ]
Memoir excerpt: Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You
Read an exclusive excerpt from Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You by Candice Chung: Those first few years in Sydney, my sister and I cooked like the reclusive middle-aged men [ … ]