BY ATHENA LAM The LGBTQ+ community could do with more diversity. LGBTQ+ representation in Greater China, as with the rest of the world, is often stripped down to the image [ … ]
Category: NüStories Magazine
NüStories is a magazine of ideas that aims to highlight minority voices on China subjects
Carving out Chinese ideals of female beauty: Visualizations by Artist Su Yang
BY SU YANG Physical beauty standards for women have evolved around the world over time, but the quest and thirst for the ideal hasn’t. Going under the knife to conform [ … ]
Q&A with NüVoices board member Karoline Kan, author of Under Red Skies
In her debut book, Under Red Skies: The Life and Times of a Chinese millennial, former New York Times reporter Karoline Kan offers a deeply personal and powerful portrait of China’s [ … ]
Meet the queer women organizers of Shanghai’s LGBTQ community
BY JOHANNA M. COSTIGAN When I first met Ting Ting Liang at her bar in Shanghai, she came across as fast but attentive, caring but assertive. Walking in, she lights a [ … ]
Opinion: Why women are leaving Hong Kong tech companies
BY ATHENA LAM The silence expanded beyond the empty seat she left behind, which is right in the middle of the technology company’s open office in Hong Kong. Everyone who [ … ]
Short Story from a Queer Woman: Tearing
BY ALICE XIN LIU I fell for Ostrich. I, a woman married to a man, fell for a woman. And it was one of the most amazing experiences… PING, a [ … ]
Personal Essay by a Chinese daughter: The half-truths we tell in times of sickness
BY WANG ZHEN My mother does not know she has grade three brain cancer. She knows she has brain cancer, and that the ugly thing needs to be taken out [ … ]
Personal Essay by a Chinese adoptee: I returned to China to find my biological family and discover my cultural roots
BY ANDRÉ-ANNE CÔTÉ Since I was young, I always knew I was adopted from China. My parents had adopted children from different origins: China, Haiti, and indigenous people in Canada. My [ … ]
Madeleine O’Dea on her memoir The Phoenix Years, Chinese artists and the nation’s transformation
BY JOANNA CHIU AND MADELEINE O’DEA “The riveting story of China’s rise from economic ruin to global giant in the past four decades is illuminated by another, equally fascinating, narrative [ … ]
Fiction Excerpt: Searching for Gao Meng
BY DANA LIU The Problematique A week after Professor Bai Hua’s lecture on the female writer Ding Ling, he called me to his office. I’d recently slipped a problematique under [ … ]
Translation: Reflections on #MeToo and machismo violence by Peruvian writer Gabriela Wiener
BY ISOLDA MORILLO Behind every great man, there is a great woman. Or so the saying goes. Throughout history, women have come to the world, shaped their identities by concepts, [ … ]
Loud Murmurs: A feminist Chinese podcast deconstructing US pop culture
BY AFRA WANG Growing up in China in the early 2000s, my friends and I were extensively influenced by United States pop culture. I was an outstanding fourth grader who [ … ]
How to rock your broadcast appearance
BY SOPHIA YAN Dear NüVoices family, I started my career with high hopes of penning long magazines features but somehow ended up in the crazy fast world of live television. Journeying [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Five female Chinese artists explore femininity
BY CLARISSA TAM As much as beauty and aesthetics are often perceived to be “the woman’s domain,” the art world has long held the bad habit of overlooking female artists. [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Fiction Excerpt: Tender Darling
BY NANCY L. CONYERS “Lisa, I must tell you, I don’t want to rent to a Chinese,” Helen said when she and Lisa were touring Helen’s apartment in the newly [ … ]
Travel Essay: Hiking Huangshan helped me conquer the mountain within
BY BETTY XIAO It was a warm spring in Huangshan, Central China last year. Home to China’s famous “Yellow Mountain,” the city welcomes adventure-seeking tourists every year who are drawn [ … ]