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 [ … ]
Category: NüStories Magazine
NüStories is a magazine of ideas that aims to highlight minority voices on China subjects
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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) [ … ]