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: [ … ]
Category: Personal Essay
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 [ … ]
Losing a Grandmother, Learning Her Language
BY TARA SUN VANACORE The Chinese-American novelist Yu Lihua (於梨华), who died in April at the age of 90, is recognized as being one of the most influential writers of [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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. [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]