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 [ … ]
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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 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 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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
100+ attend NüVoices NYC launch and discussion on Chinese feminism
BY CINDY GAO NüVoices NYC’s launch event was a standing-room only success hosted at Verso Books on November 1, 2018. The all-female panel discussed contemporary feminist organizing in China against [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #8: Eleanor Goodman on the art of translating Chinese poetry
In the eighth episode of the NüVoices Podcast, Alice Xin Liu, writer and translator, interviews Eleanor Goodman with guest host Lijia Zhang, author of Socialism Is Great! and most recently Lotus, and board [ … ]
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 [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #7: A rocket maker turned journalist, Lijia Zhang
In the seventh episode of the NüVoices podcast, co-hosts Sophie Lu and Joanna Chiu interview author, journalist, activist, and NüVoices Collective editorial board member Lijia Zhang. But first, a reminder [ … ]
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, [ … ]
NüVoices launches in New York November 1!
NüVoices is an international editorial collective gathering veteran and emerging writers, journalists, translators and artists to celebrate and support the diverse creative work of self-identified women working on the subject [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]