BY MEGAN CATTEL *Note: Spoilers ahead * The title of Te-Ping Chen’s debut short story collection Land of Big Numbers conjures up familiar tropes about China, the world’s most populous nation—often [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #50: Directing “Finding Yingying”, with Jenny Shi
Jiāyán “Jenny” Shī (施佳妍) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and video journalist based in Chicago. Her first feature-length documentary, Finding Yingying, was the winner of the 2020 SXSW Special Jury Recognition for [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #49: Walking through development mandalas in the eastern Tibetan Plateau, with Pamela Logan
Dr. Pamela Logan’s latest book, Compassion Mandala: The Odyssey of an American Charity in Contemporary Tibet, chronicles her experience founding and running Kham Aid Foundation in the eastern Tibetan Plateau from [ … ]
Opinion: As a female artist, I kept shortchanging myself. Now, I try to know my value
BY JANE PENG The first hint that there was a problem occurred innocently. I had just switched from a corporate career to a creative one, and I embraced every moment [ … ]
Virtual events for Te-Ping Chen’s story collection, Land of Big Numbers
Here at NüVoices, we couldn’t be more proud or more excited that our community member Te-Ping Chen’s debut short story collection is launching on February 2nd! Read on for the [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #48: U.S.-Taiwan relations: From Trump to Biden
On January 9, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo announced that the United States would eliminate self-imposed restrictions on exchanges between American and Taiwanese officials. Reactions have been mixed, with [ … ]
Anthropologist: Taiwanese identity is a ‘paradox’ of conflicting beliefs – but social bonds create unity
BY ASHLEY DENG-YU CHEN In Taiwan, national and cultural identities are often in conflict. Taiwan is a rare example of a thriving Asian democracy. The re-election in January 2020 of [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #47: Women in fintech, with Rita Liu
Rita Liu is a seasoned fintech executive who started her career at American Express, then spent nearly a decade at Alipay building its international business. During her time there, she [ … ]
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 [ … ]
‘Send me to the clouds’ is a scathing indictment of the stigma surrounding leftover women
BY ANNABELLE JARRETT First-time director and writer Teng Congcong’s feature debut Send Me to the Clouds is a scathing indictment of the stigma surrounding “leftover women” – and a warmly funny [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #46: Retail and e-commerce boom and bust in mainland and Hong Kong during COVID-19, with Tiffany Ap
Tiffany Ap is currently the China bureau chief for Women’s Wear Daily. In this episode of the NüVoices Podcast, Tiffany and Cindy discuss the revival of the fashion and retail [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #45: An uncertain future with guaranteed friction: U.S.-China economic coercion, with Ashley Feng
Tensions between the U.S. and China have ratcheted upward in the last four years of the Trump administration. Groundbreaking research from independent Washington, D.C.–based researcher Ashley Feng have shown that acts of [ … ]
EXPLAINER: China’s Domestic Violence Epidemic amid COVID-19
BY MIA COUPLAND Last November, makeup vlogger He Yuhong reignited the conversation on #MeToo in China when she shared her experiences with domestic violence in a Weibo video. He, who [ … ]
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 [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #44: U.S.-China relations: The rock, the hard place, and those in between, with Zhaoyin Feng
Zhàoyīn Féng 冯兆音 is a bilingual journalist based in Washington, D.C., where she reports on U.S.-China relations for the BBC World Service. In this timely conversation, Zhaoyin and Cindy [ … ]
WATCH: China’s Black community speaks out on identity, racism and solidarity
BY DAISY XU AND SIYU CHEN As awareness on Black Lives Matter grows in China, we decided to speak to members of China’s growing Black community about identity, discrimination and [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #43: Literary translation and language as resistance, with Anne Henochowicz
Today’s guest, Anne Henochowicz, works at the intersection of literature and human rights. She has translated leaked propaganda directives and subversive Weibo posts, investigative journalism and poetry. She is currently the [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #42: Hong Kong media, redefined
Beijing’s enactment of sweeping national security legislation in Hong Kong spurred fresh fear for the territory’s cherished freedoms as authorities sought to quash months of citywide protests. How have journalists, [ … ]
Review: My Prince Edward, a modern Hong Kong love story by writer-director Norris Wong
BY DAISY SINGH-GREAVES Cheung Lei-fong sits alone in a restaurant in Fuzhou, eating a bowl of noodles and looking content. Her phone starts pinging as she receives a string of [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #41: Development finance and Chinese identity, with Yunnan Chen
Yunnan Chen is a senior research officer for the Overseas Development Institute, a London think tank focused on international development and humanitarian issues. She joins Cindy for a conversation on China-Africa [ … ]