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 [ … ]
Category: Profiles
NüProfile: Ysabelle Cheung on poetry, diaspora and writing from the margins
BY MEGAN CATTEL Poetry is very hit or miss for me (as a prose writer.) Sometimes the words roll right past me, and sometimes they leap off the page and [ … ]
An unexpected outlet: The Chinese theatre troupe creating safe spaces for marginalized voices
BY ANDRÉ-ANNE CÔTÉ After my graduation at Peking University in May 2019, a Chinese friend invited me to a surprise performance — telling me the location only an hour before [ … ]
NüProfile: Jinghua Qian on why “China-watching” is problematic, inclusion and un-belonging in Australia
BY ANNABELLE JARRETT NüProfile is a column featuring in-depth conversations with diverse creators working on China subjects. Jinghua Qian has always been a creator and a questioner. Born in Shanghai, [ … ]
NüProfile: Grace Ly speaks about Chinese identities in France, anti-Asian racism, and exploring culture through food
BY DAISY SINGH-GREAVES NüProfile is a column featuring in-depth conversations with diverse creators working on China subjects. In France, despite being a country built on ideas of universality and equality, [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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, [ … ]
Five podcasts on LGBTQ+ culture in Greater China
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]