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 [ … ]
Category: Essay
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. [ … ]
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) [ … ]
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: [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Letter by Chinese feminists: Free Detained Journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin and Activist Wang Jianbing
BY UK CHINESE FEMINISTS It has been over half a year since feminist journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin and labour activist Wang Jianbing disappeared on the afternoon of September 19, 2021. [ … ]
China’s #MeToo: In literature and reality, the patriarchy keeps women from helping women. But they’re fighting back.
BY EMILY MATSON In both literature and in real life, women in China are reluctant to stand up for one another and themselves, and are implicated in their own oppression. [ … ]
Personal Essay by a Chinese-American: Distances
BY HUIZHONG WU My best friend in middle school had dark blonde hair, blue eyes and a cocker spaniel named Hershey. Her house in the middle of the city had [ … ]
Hong Kong’s lesbian spaces and the stories behind them
BY BENITA CHICK The alley is dark and a bit creepy, and it doesn’t look like it leads to anywhere. Concealed within it is a secret spot that is unknown [ … ]
Breaking through the publishing glass ceiling: A tribute to my literary agent
BY SHERIDAN PRASSO I found out in June, by reading her obituary in the New York Times, that my agent had died. Elaine Markson was a remarkable woman, and her [ … ]