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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #16: The musical life and career of director Zou Shuang (邹爽)
Episode 16 of the NüVoices Podcast is here! This week, Alice Xin Liu is joined by co-host Zhāng Líjīa 张丽佳. The two interviewed Zōu Shuǎng 邹爽, a director and playwright. [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #15: Rocking while female, with Anlin Fan of Xiao Wang (小王)
In episode 15 of the NüVoices Podcast, co-host Alice Xin Liu interviews the co-founder and lead singer of Xiao Wang 小王, Anlin Fan. Since she started the band with her [ … ]
NüVoices London wanel ft. board member Karoline Kan, author of Under Red Skies
NüVoices and Young China Watchers (YCW) London invites you to our co-hosted wanel discussion with Karoline Kan on her latest book “Under Red Skies: The Life and Times of a [ … ]
WATCH: Over 80 attend NüVoices London launch wanel “Being feminist in China: Gender issues across generations”
BY ALYSSA OURSLER It was a long-kept family secret that Lijia Zhang’s grandmother was sold to a brothel at the age of 14. Zhang—a factory-worker-turned-writer who has penned articles for The [ … ]
DC Event recap: Uyghur women on the ongoing human rights crisis in their homeland
BY NICOLE MORGRET The first panel event of the new Washington DC NüVoices chapter was held last week, providing the perspective of two Uyghur women on the ongoing human rights crisis in [ … ]
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 [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #14: Women and Chinese Sci-Fi: Live at the Bookworm with Tang Fei and Ji Shaoting
Recorded live at the Beijing Bookworm Literary Festival, this week’s episode of the NüVoices podcast features a discussion with two prominent science fiction authors, Tang Fei and Ji Shaoting. The [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #13: ‘Black Mirror’ China and Dystopian Female Futures with Cate Cadell
In episode 13 of the NüVoices podcast, co-hosts Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu interview Cate Cadell, a tech writer for Reuters who is based in Beijing. Cate covers Chinese [ … ]
NüVoices DC Event: Life under Chinese Rule in Xinjiang
The Chinese state has forced at least 1.5 million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims into “reeducation” camps since 2017, and new reports of torture, forced labor, and cultural genocide emerge [ … ]
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 [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #12: Shui, on Beijing’s ‘zine scene
In the 12th episode of the NüVoices podcast, Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu interview Shuilam Wong, who goes by Shui, a comic artist who partnered with Jinna Kaneko to [ … ]
NüVoices invites you to our London Launch Wanel “Being feminist in China: Gender issues across generations”
NüVoices invites you to our London launch wanel (women panel) on feminism in China from generational, cultural and intersectional perspectives. Years after Mao proclaimed that women “hold up half the [ … ]
Women experts discuss gender issues and how to build successful China-related careers in London Wanel
BY RICCARDO COCIANI AND JESSIE LAU NüVoices London, in partnership with Young China Watchers London, kicked off the Year of the Pig on Feb. 20 with a China-related careers wanel (women [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #11: Queer culture, perception, and representation within China, with Alex Li
On the first episode of the second season of the NüVoices podcast, Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu are joined by Alex Li, senior editor at Vice China. Alex has [ … ]
NüVoices of the Diaspora: An evening of storytelling in NYC
NüVoices of the Diaspora is an evening filled with storytelling by artists and by the community, headlined by both young and veteran luminaries of Asian American writing and performance art. Muna Tseng, [ … ]
NüVoices and YCW London invites you to our China careers wanel
Young China Watchers London and NüVoices are co-hosting a wanel (women panel) on how to build a successful China-related career, featuring three experts – Katie Hunt, Ye Liu and Holly [ … ]
NüYear Drinks in DC – Welcome NüVoices to the US Capital!
Let’s welcome the Year of the Pig and toast to NüVoices in DC! Date: Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Joanna, chair of the NüVoices editorial collective, will be in town for our [ … ]
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 [ … ]