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 [ … ]
Category: NüStories Magazine
NüStories is a magazine of ideas that aims to highlight minority voices on China subjects
‘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 [ … ]
Chinese women use hashtags like “baby food” to shield from sexist men, but remain vulnerable to abuse
BY LUNA HUANG When Chuxuan (not her real name) was asked whether she had encountered sexual harassment on Chinese digital platforms, her answer was grudging and resentful: “Yes – a [ … ]
Reflections on a light show
BY CHENNI XU AND CHAO DENG Inspired by The Use of Photography by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, we penned twinned pieces in response to a shared photo of our [ … ]
2025 NüStories Essay Contest
This year, NüStories launched its first annual personal essay contest to encourage and honor non-fiction writing on China by underrepresented writers – and we were blown away by the response! [ … ]
Memoir excerpt: Model Minority Gone Rogue by Qin Qin
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 [ … ]
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
Dear Patrons: Thank you for your continued patronage and dedication to the important work NüVoices is conducting!
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 [ … ]