BY ANNALISA MARIANI Ferkat Jawdat is an Uyghur American activist from Xinjiang whose family has been targeted for his advocacy work against the persecution of Uyghurs in China. In a [ … ]
Category: NüStories Magazine
NüStories is a magazine of ideas that aims to highlight minority voices on China subjects
UK to review Hong Kong British National Overseas status, but domestic violence victims are left out of the discussion
BY PERSEUS After cracking down on a year of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, Beijing is expected to pass a sweeping national security law on Tuesday criminalizing dissent – legislation [ … ]
Resources for China watchers to fight anti-Black racism
At NüVoices, we are an international collective of creators and researchers devoted to celebrating the diverse work of self-identified women and non-binary voices on greater China (broadly defined). NüVoices strongly [ … ]
Chinese opera is being revitalized—with a gender twist
BY ELYSE RIBBONS Walking through a village in Ninghai—a county in the Chinese city of Ningbo—on a sunny afternoon, I found the oppressive heat to be in distinct contrast with [ … ]
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. [ … ]
Why is China still so reluctant to help us find our birth parents?
BY ANDRÉ-ANNE CÔTÉ “Ayi, why did you start working at the orphanage?” I asked. “Because I had to. Orders were coming from the top. Of course, I wouldn’t have chosen [ … ]
Opinion: In Hong Kong, the government is weaponising sex to downplay its failures
BY SOPHIE MAK Last week, Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced a ban on alcohol sales at eateries as part of a series of measures to combat the spread of coronavirus. [ … ]
NüProfile: Madeline Leung Coleman on diaspora, feminism and freelance writing
BY CINDY GAO NüProfile is a column featuring in-depth conversations with diverse creators working on China subjects. It’s not every day you get a call from a Golden Globe winner [ … ]
Essay: Thrift Stor(i)es
BY GRACE OUYANG Nonnative is a new series of personal essays on the Asian American experience with a focus on Chinese culture by Grace Ouyang, a writer based in Brooklyn. [ … ]
I am a Wuhan girl
BY YULI YANG “I am a Wuhan girl” was originally posted on Yang’s social media. I am a Wuhan girl living in Hong Kong. Right now, all my close family [ … ]
In pictures: Behind the frontlines of the Hong Kong protests
BY KATHERINE CHENG “Hong Kong Protests: Behind the Frontlines” is a photo essay originally published in 2019 on Katherine Cheng’s website. The Hong Kong protests are a series of ongoing [ … ]
Director and screenwriter Wu Nan talks gender, storytelling and her first feature film “Push and Shove 狗眼看人心”
BY DAISY SINGH-GREAVES As a Chinese female director and screenwriter, Wu Nan is used to playing the long game. When discussing competition within China’s film industry, many often point to [ … ]
Navigating my biracial identity as a Chinese-American living in China
BY MEGAN CATTEL I had been living in Shanghai for almost a year when I met a Chinese-American acquaintance for dinner. We had met once before, in New York, where [ … ]
Overseas Chinese reflect on China’s #MeToo Movement from the United States
BY GLORIS LIU An original version of this piece was published in 2018 under the title “Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault in the U.S. and China” in Gloris Liu’s blog. China’s [ … ]
Q&A: Young women discuss gender and education in China today
BY OLIVIA A. HALSALL Whether at school, university or in the workplace, young women in China are grappling with gender inequality. In 2018, the Global Gender Gap Report – benchmarking the progress towards [ … ]
“Your Mother Sacrificed Herself for the Country” – The Idealization of the Female Martyr in China
BY EMILY MATSON When I first visited the northeastern provincial capital of Harbin to conduct dissertation research, I had never heard the name Zhao Yiman. This was soon to change, [ … ]
10 Tips for writing life stories from Madeleine O’Dea, author of The Phoenix Years
BY MADELEINE O’DEA This piece is an edited version of a workshop given by Madeleine O’Dea and hosted by NüVoices London on July 3, 2019. Special thanks to volunteers Jessie [ … ]
James Griffiths, author of The Great Firewall of China, discusses censorship and China’s women’s movement
BY GLORIS LIU AND DAISY SINGH-GREAVES “China’s censors do not care about blocking content, they care about blocking solidarity,” James Griffiths writes in his debut book The Great Firewall of China: [ … ]
Taiwan’s lesbian sex toy and divination shop strives to help queer women accept themselves
BY WUJUN KE When Kitty Lee asked me to take off my glasses and stretch out my hands, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Kitty is the manager of Love Boat, [ … ]
Fiction: A brother comes to visit
BY JESSIE TU My brother came to visit on a Saturday night. The weather had been hot all day, lingered around and stayed until late. I’d been living with a [ … ]