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Tag: feminism
Here Are 12 Feminist Books to Read from 20th Century China
BY EMILY MATSON China’s feminist activism has blossomed against all odds to become one of the country’s most dynamic social movements. However, this phenomenon didn’t emerge from a vacuum. Rather, [ … ]
Poet Lerato Mathibe explores feminism, blackness and spirituality in ‘Baby Steps’
BY ELYSE RIBBONS NüProfile is a column featuring conversations with diverse creators working on China-related subjects. “Being black in China is also a blessing that I don’t take for granted,” [ … ]
Book Excerpt: ‘Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics’
In this new book Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics by scholars Ping Zhu and Hui Xiao, the two editors explore what it means to be a feminist in contemporary China, specifically looking [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #37: Chinese cuisine in America, with Simone Tong
Simone Tong is a chef and co-owner of Little Tong Noodle Shop and the newly opened restaurant Silver Apricot in New York City. Cindy sat down with her to discuss [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #35: The nation of diaspora: April Zhu on reporting from Nairobi, part 2
April Zhu is a freelance journalist and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on gender, urban inequality, and China–Kenya relations. In this episode, NüVoices board member Cindy Gao [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #34: April Zhu on reporting from Nairobi, part 1
April Zhu is a freelance journalist and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on gender, urban inequality, and China-Kenya relations. In this episode, NüVoices board member Cindy Gao [ … ]
How women artists are navigating China’s complex feminist landscape
BY LUISE GUEST The “F Word” – feminism, that is – can take you into risky territory in China. I first confronted this ten years ago in my research for a book about women artists. During my [ … ]
Film: Outcry and Whisper
Shot over an eight-year period, Outcry and Whisper presents itself as a political manifesto for the resistance of women, be they workers, artists, intellectuals or militants, in Chinese and Hong Kong [ … ]
Opinion: In Hong Kong, the government is weaponising sex to downplay its failures
BY SOPHIE MAK Last week, Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced a ban on alcohol sales at eateries as part of a series of measures to combat the spread of coronavirus. [ … ]
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 [ … ]
“Your Mother Sacrificed Herself for the Country” – The Idealization of the Female Martyr in China
BY EMILY MATSON When I first visited the northeastern provincial capital of Harbin to conduct dissertation research, I had never heard the name Zhao Yiman. This was soon to change, [ … ]
B人BEL Magazine Call for Submissions
Submissions are open for the second issue of B人BEL Magazine! B人BEL Magazine tells the stories of people in China we don’t often get to know about. The people who are [ … ]
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: [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Fiction Excerpt: Searching for Gao Meng
BY DANA LIU The Problematique A week after Professor Bai Hua’s lecture on the female writer Ding Ling, he called me to his office. I’d recently slipped a problematique under [ … ]