Read an exclusive excerpt adapted from Model Minority Gone Rogue: How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off-script by Qin Qin (Hachette Australia, March 2024): Dragon Fire [ … ]
Category: NüStories Magazine
NüStories is a magazine of ideas that aims to highlight minority voices on China subjects
Fiction: Diary of a Madwoman
BY 鸑岚朠 YUÈ LÁNYĪNG PHOENIX MOONMIST Known as the “Soul of China” (民族魂), writer Lǔ Xùn (鲁迅) birthed one of China’s first modern short stories,《狂人日记》“A Madman’s Diary” in 1918. This [ … ]
NüProfile: Jih-E Peng on cinematography and the creative process
BY TINGTING WANG Jih-E Peng is a Taiwanese cinematographer who was raised in Hong Kong. Now based in New York, she has 15 years of experience working in the American [ … ]
Fiction: A Long Walk Through the Tall Dry Grass
BY N.J. CHAN Author’s note: My tale centers around a girl from rural Guangdong, China during the second Sino-Japanese war. The war affects her life in a tragic way through a heart-breaking [ … ]
Past, present and poetry: Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui’s ‘July Rhapsody’
Contributor Daisy Singh Greaves reviews Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui’s ‘July Rhapsody’
NüVoices 2024 Global Updates / Wrap
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Book excerpt: Kate Whitehead’s ‘Pandemic Minds’ explores mental health in Hong Kong
In ‘Pandemic Minds,’ journalist and psychotherapist Kate Whitehead uncovers the stories of Hongkongers who weathered the storm of the pandemic
NüVoices in Perugia: The rise and transformation of women’s magazines and platforms
NüVoices Editor joins Teen Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief and gal-dem’s former Head of Editorial in a panel at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia
NüProfile: Fiona Sze-Lorrain on creativity and her debut novel “Dear Chrysanthemums”
BY JESSIE LAU “Dear Chrysanthemums” is a debut novel composed of several interconnected stories by writer, poet, translator and musician Fiona Sze-Lorrain. It explores the lives of Chinese and Asian [ … ]
Tears of Salt: Review of ‘Salt Town’ by Yi Xiaohe
Rural women in China have been disadvantaged and abused for millennia. A star Chinese journalist shows how in one village, little has changed.
A Chinese drama is sparking debates about sexual harassment and victim-blaming culture
BY LIJIA ZHANG A star-studded Chinese TV drama delving into workplace sexual harassment titled Imperfect Victim recently ended, but the debate it triggered rages on. The show, which ran to 29 45-minute episodes, centres [ … ]
How China’s leaders changed the history of the War of Resistance to bolster Party prestige
BY EMILY MATSON On July 7, 1937, a skirmish broke out between Chinese and Japanese troops stationed on the outskirts of Wanping, a village southwest of Beijing, that subsequently became [ … ]
Writer-director Shen Yu’s debut “Old Town Girls” captures the hopes and despairs of China’s youth
BY ANNABELLE JARRETT It doesn’t matter if our wishes sink… Shen Yu’s debut feature The Old Town Girls is a dark and dramatic story that highlights the frailty of youth [ … ]
NüProfile: Ysabelle Cheung on poetry, diaspora and writing from the margins
BY MEGAN CATTEL Poetry is very hit or miss for me (as a prose writer.) Sometimes the words roll right past me, and sometimes they leap off the page and [ … ]
NüVoices Book Picks for Asian Heritage Month
Happy Asian Heritage Month! To celebrate, NüVoices is partnering with leading indie publisher House of Anansi to recommend some very good books by authors of Asian heritage. 10% of Anansi’s [ … ]
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, [ … ]
Voices: Chinese protesters in Shanghai and London reflect on anti-lockdown demonstrations
BY JESSIE LAU After hundreds took part in stunning mass protests across China last month to express their anger towards Covid-19 restrictions and the Chinese Communist Party, the government this [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Why it’s misleading to call Xi Jinping the “new Mao”
BY EMILY MATSON As Xi Jinping prepares to cement his power through a much-hyped third term as China’s president, many observers have been quick to compare his leadership with that [ … ]
Podcast Crossover: Time To Say Goodbye on ‘Ascension’, a documentary about Chinese consumerism and labor force
Hello from our summer hiatus! While we’re away, the pod squad is thrilled to share episodes from podcasts we love and admire. This week, we have an episode from Time [ … ]