Thrilled to introduce @nuoraglobal.bsky.social — a consultancy I’ve been building with an incredible team. Launching tomorrow — Follow for insights from our global network of #Asia experts!

My conversation with the brilliant Hong Kong filmmaker and entrepreneur Ching Wong is out now @nuvoices.bsky.social - so great to see this year’s HK Film Festival UK spotlighting female directors 💕

Hong Kong Film Festival UK amplifies the work of women filmmakers from the city’s New Wave cinema movement, which evocatively captures the region’s recent transformations. Read editor Jessie Lau’s interview with festival curator Ching Wong:

🔥Spots are still available! NüVoices is proud to present an upcoming writing workshop with Yangyang Cheng on writing about Chinese current events, culture, and society. 📅6 Dec 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM 📷$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads) Details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...

Weaving together memories of Cantonese, Mandarin, Wenzhounese, German, Dutch, and English, Jing-Jing Hu examines the complexity of her identity through the lens of language. This piece was a runner-up in our essay contest:

🚨How can we write about China-US relations without a Cold-War binary or Orientalist rhetoric? Check out our upcoming virtual writing workshop with @yangyangcheng.bsky.social! 📅6 December 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM 💲$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads) For more details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...

Very excited to be on the judging panel for the 2026 @orwellprize.bsky.social in Political Writing, chaired by Rohan Silva, alongside Katie Prescott, Sam Bowman and Lawrence Freedman. Looking forward to reading and discussing—get your submissions in now! www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-p...

In Hong Kong, a male law student created AI-generated porn images of over 20 women—only to receive a warning letter from the school. The case exposes how the city’s legal framework leaves digital sex crime victims vulnerable, Kelly Yu reports:

Strangers When We Meet presents two ex-convicts getting married for their needs for stability and financial security. Cleo Li-Schwartz writes that despite outstanding performance, it shows how Chinese male directors often undermine female characters’ agency:

This week on the pod, @solarina.ca talks to Hong Kong filmmaker Elizabeth Lo about her award-winning new documentary, 'Mistress Dispeller'. Now playing in select theatres across the US: nuvoices.com/2025/10/22/n... 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts! Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUep...

"I was kind of panicking," says Chloe Cheung, 20, a HK activist with a 1 million HKD bounty placed on her by Beijing. “The only reason everything happened in Hong Kong was because authorities wanted an extradition treaty with China. The warning light, of course, would switch on.”

Japanese colonialism is infamous for its brutalization of women. But less known is women’s role in the resistance, brought to life in 2 novels I reviewed @jacobinmag.bsky.social - CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE by Park Seolyeon, translated @antonhur.com & WHEN SLEEPING WOMEN WAKE by @emmapeiyin.bsky.social

Listen to our latest podcast episode with Barbara Demick on her latest book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove📖

Beijing-based Shakespeare enthusiast Sarah Ye talks to Heather Irvine about translating Shakespeare's sonnets in her evenings after work. Read the piece here:

The British government is being accused of turning a blind eye to security threats posed by Beijing and prioritizing economic ties, after the collapse of a Chinese spy trial. Yet others say the real problem is Britain’s lack of a coherent engagement strategy. My story @asia.nikkei.com @nikkei.com

Travelling to see the world means accepting that the world will see you. In South America, Tappy Lung's interactions force her to contemplate her perceived "Chinese-ness".🏅 This essay was a runner-up in NüStories’ personal essay contest:

I wrote a story @theguardian.com about Zhang Yadi, a London-bound Chinese student and Tibetan rights advocate who was arrested over the summer on suspicion of “inciting separatism.” If found guilty, she faces a prison sentence of up to 15 years. Read the story, with comments from @hrw.org, below:

I wrote a review @thetls.bsky.social of “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,” a deep investigation by author & former @latimes.com China correspondent @barbarademick.bsky.social into Beijing’s brutal One Child Policy that centres around the reunion of a pair of separated twins. Read in print or online 🔗

This week, Nüvoices editor Jessie Lau speaks to award-winning author Barbara Demick about her new book ‘Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,’ and how her reporting reunited twin sisters forced apart under Beijing’s One Child Policy and raised separately in China and the US:

In her latest short film ‘The Test’, Meng Han Hsieh, the UK-based Taiwanese filmmaker, reflects on the UK citizenship test and her identity as an East Asian female creative. Read the article by Angel Sun: nuvoices.com/2025/09/17/m...

It’s been ten years since I first watched the banned HK dystopian film “Ten Years,” now being brought to Britain by the HK Film Festival UK. I wrote my reflections in an essay @prospectmagazine.co.uk and spoke to some of the directors ahead of the London screening, co-hosted @amnestyuk.bsky.social

In immigration, women usually give up their careers and take on childcare responsibilities. Read the article by Angel Sun, who speaks with Hong Kong migrant mums in the UK about their new motherhood: nuvoices.com/2025/08/26/m...

We still have spots open for our upcoming writing workshop with @hannamade.bsky.social! Are you a writer interested in examining social issues through a futuristic lens? Join our workshop! More info: nuvoices.com/2025/08/13/e... Tickets: lu.ma/hnie6mgm

I penned New Tide’s first newsletter celebrating our launch as the UK’s first East and Southeast Asian journalist’s media network! Every month, our newsletter will feature a new ESEA journo and a round up of UK opportunities + events. Subscribe now: newtidenetwork.substack.com/p/new-tide-w...

Chinese feminist activists in the UK are urging Chinese authorities to protect women online, after sexually explicit images and videos of women were circulated in a Telegram group with over 900000 members. Read the article by Kelly Yu: nuvoices.com/2025/08/26/o...

This week, NüVoices host Tiffany Ap speaks with AI and tech analyst Grace Shao on the divergent approaches to AI deployment in China and the US, the domestic AI talent in China and the future of robotics. Listen here: nuvoices.com/2025/08/27/n...

Are you a writer interested in exploring sci-fi, and using fiction to examine social issues through a futuristic lens? Join our upcoming virtual Speculative Fiction Workshop, hosted by NüVoices and led by @hannamade.bsky.social More information: nuvoices.com/2025/08/13/e... Tickets: lu.ma/hnie6mgm

A northern Chinese coastal town, a divorced poet-turned-food-critic, a vivid and sharp young photographer: these are a few threads of The Shadowless Tower (2023), featured at the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival in London. Read the review by Cleo Li-Schwartz: nuvoices.com/2025/08/01/f...

In 2020, Kate Hu was working a prestigious finance job when a potentially cancerous lump in her breast made her reevaluate her life. Now, she is a successful comedian who addresses issues of race and gender in her work. Read about her journey, by Miya Yonger Shen: nuvoices.com/2025/08/01/w...

In the wake of China’s massive #maskpark scandal, in which sexually exploitative images of Chinese women were found to be shared in Telegram groups with hundreds of thousands of users, I wrote a story @theguardian.com about how the current system leaves women vulnerable to digital violence and abuse

In this personal essay, Pi3 reflects on her identity struggles in London — where she is physically away from the political oppression, yet fails to proudly assert her Chinese-ness. 🏅 This essay was a runner-up in NüStories’ essay contest on "Chinese Identity": nuvoices.com/2025/07/01/l...

“I asked for empathy: for the room to consider what it is like to have American geopolitical interests blowback on their families.” In this piece, Frances Zhu Hisgen writes on how Chinese people in US policy are demonised amid rising foreign-policy paranoia nuvoices.com/2025/07/01/i...

Visiting her family shrine in Taiwan, Tara Sun Vanacore reflects on being half-Chinese, half-American. Reconciling with loss, she explores how Chinese identity continues through generations. 🏅This piece was a runner-up in our essay contest: nuvoices.com/2025/07/01/h...

INVESTIGATION: I worked with @carlottad.bsky.social and her amazing team ⁦at CNN‬⁩ As Equals on this interactive story about the precarious conditions that domestic workers face in Hong Kong, where one misstep can lead to debt, detention and even deportation. Out now: edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

🎋 What does it mean to be "the right type of exotic"? In her book ‘Chinese and Any other Asian’, Anna Sulan Masing reflects on her experience of racialised gender and sexuality growing up half Malaysian in Britain. Read an exclusive excerpt on NüStories: nuvoices.com/2025/07/01/b...

New review at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social by @susanbk.bsky.social on a new book by Barbara Demick & the 10th anniversary reissue of one by @letahongfincher.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/daug... cc @chinarhyming.bsky.social @nuvoices.bsky.social

👇 @nuvoices.bsky.social @uselesstree.bsky.social @pm-thornton.bsky.social (stay tuned for details on a couple of late October launch events in the Netherlands & UK)

Flick through the history books and you’d be hard pressed to find stories about British Chinese women. But in “I Am Not a Tourist”, Daisy J. Hung reminds us to remember. Read an exclusive excerpt now on NüStories: nuvoices.com/2025/06/12/b... @daisyhunguk.bsky.social

“I feel increasingly protective of my Hong Kong heritage and defensive against assimilation. The pressure I’ve felt has been exacerbated by the racist and sexist backlash … to East Asian women marrying outside their race, which has become a negative cultural trope.” Our editor @laujessie.bsky.social

While planning my wedding, I struggled to find “the dress.” I quickly realised that my anxieties were less about the look itself, and more about what it had come to represent: my sense of identity in an interracial marriage. It led my to write this personal essay–out now in the style pages @cnn.com

“In this country that boasts of bringing all Chinese people together, I can’t help but ask: Where do I really belong?” China may be portrayed as one big family of 56 ethnicities, but this heartfelt, translated essay sheds light on the bitter conflicts that strain it: nuvoices.com/2025/06/13/e...

Thanks @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social for quoting @sharonyamsy.bsky.social & my @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay (that was edited w/such care by @amiefr.bsky.social ) in your assessment of how much has changed, for the worse, in Hong Kong in the last 5 years www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/06/deat...

🚨NüVoices special🎙️episode: In this special episode, host and board member @sophiayan.bsky.social talks to Amanda Hsiao, director with @eurasiagroup.net's China practice, to look back on the first five months of Trump 2.0, and what we can learn from US-China relations: nuvoices.com/2025/06/25/n...

🚨SPECIAL🎙️EPISODE: In this NüVoices Special episode, host and board member @sophiayan.bsky.social talks to Amanda Hsiao, director in Eurasia Group’s China practice, to look back on the first five months of Trump 2.0, and what we can learn from US-China relations: nuvoices.com/2025/06/25/n...

“It was the taste of her cooking in my mouth and the lilt of her voice in my head.” Read N. J. Chan’s beautifully reflective essay on identity, food, and memory—found in the lap cheong aisle. 🏅 This piece was runner up in the NüStories essay contest: nuvoices.com/2025/06/01/a...

“Some people say, ‘Oh, you’re only half Chinese,’ and I wonder — which half? The top half or the bottom half?” Kim Gordon’s essay confronts diaspora, language, and the myth of a monolithic Chinese identity.🏅 This was a runner-up in our essay contest: nuvoices.com/2025/06/01/m...

In a lyrical meditation on queer diaspora, Anran Zheng writes through dream, memory, and migration — tracing the ache of distance and the depth of familial love. 🏅 This essay was a runner-up in NüStories’ personal essay contest on "Chinese Identity": nuvoices.com/2025/06/01/i...

💄 Don’t go into the sun, never smile for photos, show off just enough but not too much. Beauty has many rules, and Anne Anlin Cheng (@anneanlincheng) grew up learning them all. Read an excerpt of her memoir, “Ordinary Disasters” on NüStories nuvoices.com/2025/05/08/b...

NEW EPISODE: This week, NüVoices host Tiffany Ap gets in the weeds on how to live a more eco-conscious life with Sonalie Figueiras, the founder @‌greenqueenhk and Asia’s leading sustainability voice: nuvoices.com/2025/06/11/n...

In an eye-opening essay, journalist Qingbing Chen tells the story of Shiyuan — a Chengdu-based female comedian who has faced backlash for speaking up about topics like queerness, sex and periods. 🏅 This piece was the runner-up in NüStories’ essay contest. Read it here: nuvoices.com/2025/05/04/c...