Jessie Lau is a writer, editor, and researcher from Hong Kong who explores identity, human rights, and politics. Her writing has been published by The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, [ … ]
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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 [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast: Visual storytelling with Muyi Xiao
Muyi Xiao, the visuals editor at ChinaFile, is in the guest seat in this week’s episode of the NüVoices Podcast, hosted by Chenni Xu. In this episode, she talks about [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast: Sino-Black relations with Keisha Brown
Keisha Brown is an assistant professor of history at Tennessee State University and a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. In this episode, she explains the [ … ]
Packed room of 40+ joined London Wanel featuring Lijia Zhang on Lotus and China’s sex trade
BY NERYS AVERY NüVoices board member and author Lijia Zhang gave a fascinating insight into the lives of prostitutes in contemporary China at a wanel (women panel) moderated by Hong [ … ]
Podcast: Contemporary Chinese art and techno-orientalism with Xin Wang
Xin Wang is a John Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and a Ph.D. student studying contemporary art at the NYU Institute of [ … ]
Q&A: Young women discuss gender and education in China today
BY OLIVIA A. HALSALL Whether at school, university or in the workplace, young women in China are grappling with gender inequality. In 2018, the Global Gender Gap Report – benchmarking the progress towards [ … ]
Event Recap: Lü Pin on the Chinese feminist movement’s strategies in China and the US
BY TARA SUN VANACORE On August 13, members of Washington, DC’s chapter of NüVoices gathered over tea to discuss China’s feminist movement with activist Lü Pin (吕频).Lü Pin answered questions [ … ]
Podcast: Legal advocacy against domestic violence in China
In episode 17 of the NüVoices Podcast, host Joanna Chiu sits down with Siodhbhra Parkin, the director of the new, nonprofit arm of SupChina, to discuss her work in the [ … ]
Fiction: A brother comes to visit
BY JESSIE TU My brother came to visit on a Saturday night. The weather had been hot all day, lingered around and stayed until late. I’d been living with a [ … ]
Full house of 70+ welcome board member and author Karoline Kan at London wanel
BY SILVIA FROSINA A full house of 70+ attendees welcomed author and NüVoices board member Karoline Kan at the wanel (women panel) co-hosted by NüVoices and Young China Watchers London on May [ … ]
Making it personal: A life writing workshop with Madeleine O’Dea in London
Thinking about writing your life story, family history or personal essay but struggling to get started? Madeleine O’Dea, author of The Phoenix Years and a journalist with three decades of [ … ]
NüVoices DC Event: Gelato Social & Museum Hop
Come welcome the start of summer with gelato at the Hirshhorn Museum, followed by a visit to the Empresses exhibit at the Freer & Sackler Galleries. Join us and [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Podcast: Queer culture, perception, and representation within China
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Podcast: All-female improv group “Beijing Broads”
In the 10th episode of the NüVoices Podcast, Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu interview Anete and Silvia — members of the all-female improv group Beijing Broads! Comprising participants from [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]