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