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...

The Beijing International Film Festival brought award-winning Chinese cinema to London last week, showcasing bold stories and fresh perspectives. NüVoices had the pleasure to attend - stay tuned for our reviews! nuvoices.com/2025/05/21/b...

Playwright Amy Ng talks to NüStories about Shanghai Dolls - her feminist take on the lives of Jiang Qing and Sun Weishi during China’s Cultural Revolution, and her path from historian to playwright. Read it here: nuvoices.com/2025/05/09/n...

🚨New pod episode alert!🎙️ This week, we have co-hosts Chenni Xu and @solarina.ca in conversation with Wenchi Yu on her storied career, the current US-China-Taiwan landscape, working as a bridge-builder in this arena, and her new podcast, Perspectives with Wenchi Yu. nuvoices.com/2025/05/13/n...

Chris Yitao Shen reflects on a grandmother remembered in fragments: purple porridge, a peony-embroidered bed, a slow smile, exploring memory, grief, and cultural distance. This piece won 3rd prize in our essay contest🥉 Read it here, edited by @laujessie.bsky.social: nuvoices.com/2025/05/05/w...

From vast Iowan farmlands to a bustling trip across China,Jenna Wang writes about understanding her Chinese identity and the gap between lived experience and the world’s perception.🥈Her piece won 2nd prize in our NüStories essay contest.Edited by @laujessie.bsky.social: nuvoices.com/2025/05/06/i...

London folks! I’ll be speaking about reporting on human rights, politics & culture in China from afar + the work we do @nuvoices.bsky.social on this June. 3 panel at The Frontline Club. Hosted by The China Correspondents’ Club of London, the event will feature diverse voices on China. Come join us!

🚨New pod episode alert!🎙️ This week, we have co-hosts Chenni Xu and @solarina.ca in conversation with Wenchi Yu on her storied career, the current US-China-Taiwan landscape, working as a bridge-builder in this arena, and her new podcast, Perspectives with Wenchi Yu. nuvoices.com/2025/05/13/n...

Powerful Campaign Sparks Reproductive Rights Reform in Taiwan The campaign, titled "Unfreeze My Rights", put the spotlight on a little-known Taiwanese law requiring women to be married and obtain their husband’s consent to have access to their own frozen eggs. lbbonline.com/news/powerfu...

A passing comment at an optician's sparks a series of questions for Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray about identity,appearance,and the "cosmic litmus test of belonging". Her piece won 1st prize in the NüStories essay contest on Chinese identity.🥇Edited by @laujessie.bsky.social: nuvoices.com/2025/05/05/y...

I’m thrilled to announce the winners of our 1st NüStories essay contest: Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray, Jenna Wang & Chris Yitao Shen—congratulations! It gives me such joy to provide a home for their fab stories, and to share them with the world. Read the winning essays now: nuvoices.com/2025/01/22/e...

And then to mix things up a little @nuvoices.bsky.social Essay contest winners have been announced. On the theme of “Chinese identity” the essays are well worth a read. /12

There are 10 events in the calendar this weekend. 5 exhibitions, 2 protests, 1 workshop, 1 info street booth & 1 Fair! Full event details can be found in the calendar here: calendar.google.com/calendar/emb... /2

Read an exclusive excerpt from Candice Chung’s memoir 'Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You' - a moving reflection on growing up between cultures. It’s a story of Spam dinners, missed cues, and how love is shown through small gestures: nuvoices.com/2025/04/22/m...

The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at @uoft.bsky.social is hosting a China Townhall in collaboration with the @asiapacificfdn.bsky.social (It's a hybrid event -- in person and online via Zoom. (And it's an all woman panel!)) munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/how-be...

🚨🎙️PODCAST CROSSOVER🎙️🚨 This week, we're excited to share a special crossover podcast episode from Jane Perlez’ Face-Off: The U.S. vs China, on “Feminist Rebels": nuvoices.com/2025/03/26/p...

Details: lu.ma/3kwia80s Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. U.S. EST ​Location: Zoom ​Price: $40 USD regular admission / $20 USD discount rate for students, members, and recent graduates. @nuvoices.bsky.social

🚨 LAST CALL for the NüStories Essay Contest - don’t miss your chance to submit! We’re seeking personal essays on Chinese identity from underrepresented writers. What are you waiting for? 📅 Deadline: 31 March nuvoices.com/2025/01/22/e...