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Enter the contest and more details: nuvoices.com/2026/01/02/e...

🎙️BONUS EPISODE: You will hear Chris Yitao Shen, who won third place in the 2025 NüStories personal essay contest, reading her essay, What you know (and didn’t know).

Listen here - our 2026 contest submission is closing soon!

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Enter NüVoices Magazine’s 2026 creative non-fiction contest Free to enter, our annual contest seeks original writing of up to 1,200 words in the genre of creative nonfiction by self-identified women, non-binary and queer writers whose work engages with China (broadly defined). 

⏳ 1 week left! Our 2026 Creative Non-Fiction Contest is closing on 1 March - don’t miss your chance! The theme is ‘In Flux’ – in the era of uncertainty, what are the lingering aftershocks of instability, and how do you respond to the changes?
🔗 More details here: nuvoices.com/2026/01/02/e...

NüVoices Podcast #128: The Wall Dancers: A Conversation with Journalist and Author Yi-Ling Liu This week, NüVoices editor and freelance journalist Jessie Lau speaks to Yi-Ling Liu, a writer covering technology and Chinese society, about her debut book “The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet”. 

NEW EPISODE: This week, Jessie Lau speaks to Yi-Ling Liu, a writer covering technology and Chinese society, about her debut book “The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet”: nuvoices.com/2026/02/18/n...

Inside the Tongren World: Chinese Feminist Zine ‘Pubis’ Celebrates Queer Love On a clear autumn night, dozens of Chinese queers and feminists gather – aptly in London’s Vagina Museum – to celebrate the birth of a new subversive zine, ‘Pubis Magazine’.

Last October, Pubis Magazine launched as the first bilingual Chinese-English zine dedicated Chinese tongren nü — a female fandom creating gay romance and erotica.

Angel Sun writes on how tongren eases loneliness and empowers women. Edited by @lintaylor.bsky.social:

⏰ Reminder: our 2026 creative non-fiction contest is still open for submissions until 1 March! The theme is ‘In Flux’ – in the era of uncertainty, what are the lingering aftershocks of instability, and how do you respond to the changes?

🔗 More details here:

NüVoices Podcast Bonus #1: You Need Glasses for Asian Faces, A Reading by Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray Welcome to this special installment of the NüVoices podcast. I’m Jessie Lau, editor and board member of NuVoices — a collective celebrating the brilliant women shaping how we understand China today through their writing, research, and in-depth reporting. We’re a volunteer-led nonprofit that first launched in 2018 and is now registered as an NGO.

BONUS EPISODE: This week, we invited Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray, winner of the first annual NüStories personal essay contest, to read her essay, “You need glasses for Asian faces”: nuvoices.com/2026/01/28/n...

“If I write about you, if I write to you, will I understand you better?”
Gish Jen's @gishjen.bsky.social latest book Bad Bad Girl confronts her fraught relationship with her mother. Read the review: nuvoices.com/2026/01/13/c...

YCW NY | Decoding Careers at the China x Tech Intersection AI, tech competition, and geopolitics are reshaping China-focused careers. Hear experts break down risks, skills & new opportunities.

How is AI, tech competition & geopolitics reshaping China careers?

NüVoices Vice Chair Chenni Xu is speaking at the upcoming Young China Watchers event: Decoding Careers at the China x Tech Intersection.

📍Pier 57, New York 🗓 Jan 19 | 6–8 PM EST

Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/ycw-ny-dec...

Enter NüVoices Magazine’s 2026 creative non-fiction contest Free to enter, our annual contest seeks original writing of up to 1,200 words in the genre of creative nonfiction by self-identified women, non-binary and queer writers whose work engages with China (broadly defined). 

📢 Our 2026 creative non-fiction writing contest is now open for submissions! The theme this year is ‘In Flux’ – in the era of uncertainty, what are the lingering aftershocks of instability, and how do you respond to the changes?

Deadline: 1st March 2026!

More details: nuvoices.com/2026/01/02/e...

NüVoices Podcast #127: Joanna Chiu and Jessie Lau on Media Entrepreneurship and the Power of Innovation This week, NüVoices host and founder Joanna Chiu joins NüVoices editor and board member Jessie Lau to discuss their exciting new life chapters that extend their vision of NüVoices. 

NEW EPISODE: This week, NüVoices board members @joannachiu.bsky.social ‌and @laujessie.bsky.social discuss their exciting new chapters - and the two initiatives they’ve just launched in the UK and North America 🎧: nuvoices.com/2025/12/17/n...

Film Review: Beyond the Skies (云霄之上)  This review is part of a series of reflections on Chinese films presented by the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival.

Beyond the Skies (云霄之上) is “a raw, gripping, terrifying, yet deeply human story about war, sacrifice, loyalty, patriotism, and identity.”

Read the latest film review for NüVoices, here:

Man who filmed Uyghur concentration camps now fights for his own freedom in the United States In 2020, Guan Heng embarked on a risky mission to prove the existence of concentration camp facilities used to imprison Uyghurs. Now, he faces the threat of deportation back to China, where he would f...

In 2020, Guan Heng embarked on a risky mission to prove the existence of Uyghur concentration camps. Now, his fate hangs in the balance as he awaits his immigration hearing on December 15th. If sent back to China, he would face drastic consequences. Read: open.substack.com/pub/hrichina...

ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

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Hong Kong’s Struggle: Three Books Reflect on the City in Revolt During the massive Hong Kong protests in 2019, “people braved endless rounds of tear gas, water cannons, and rubber and live bullets with peace marches, barricades, Molotov cocktails, and trench warfare,” recalls Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Decolonisation Struggle.

📘 Writer Angel sun reviews three recent books that study Hong Kong 2019 movement through legal, decolonial, and transnational lenses. Despite differing approaches, they highlight the colonial roots of the movement and the individual agency in civil society: nuvoices.com/2025/12/01/h...

Women only make up a third of all speakers on China panels in Europe, research shows *This article was originally published in China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe on Nov. 19, 2025. The research represents a first pilot attempt by the Women Insight on China (WiCH) initiative to audit gender representation in Europe’s China discourse.

"So, to borrow (and lightly reimagine) Bob Dylan’s famous refrain: where have all the China girls gone?"

Emma Belmonte and Ivana Karásková reveal the sobering figures on gender representation in European China discourse. Read here: nuvoices.com/2025/11/20/w...

Face-Off S3 has just launched! Hosted by NYT longtime journalist Jane Perlez, it analyses the US-China headlines: China’s disaffected youth, arms race, and the geopolitics of rugby. Episodes are up every Tuesday on all platforms. Listen today 🔗https://www.belfercenter.org/face-us-vs-china

​In this workshop, we’ll examine the limitations in the dominant discourse on China and learn how to write against and beyond state-centric frameworks. We’ll learn how to overcome hesitation, identify a topic of interest, and work through the process of pitching, research, outlining, and drafting.

Writing Across Borders: Crafting Essays on Science, Culture, and Current Events in and beyond China · Luma Date: December 6, 2025 Time: 12 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. U.S. EST Location: Zoom Price: $40 USD regular admission / $20 USD discount rate for students and recent…

Please note students and recent grads are eligible for a 50% off discount for the workshop.

Can’t make it Saturday? No worries. All ticket holders will receive a recording to review in their own time a week after the workshop.

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Writing Across Borders: Crafting Essays on Science, Culture, and Current Events in and beyond China · Luma Date: December 6, 2025 Time: 12 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. U.S. EST Location: Zoom Price: $40 USD regular admission / $20 USD discount rate for students and recent…

Last call for sign-ups! Our Writing Across Borders workshop with @yangyangcheng.bsky.social will take place THIS Saturday, Dec 6 from 12:00 PM-1:45 PM EST.

Join us for a series of writing exercises and a Q&A with Yangyang afterwards. Click the link below to reserve your spot. luma.com/tj9dmkbo

Dear NüVoices community, We are so pleased to announce that we are officially recognized as a non-profit in the U.S. and donations from August 1, 2024 are now tax-deductible! NUVOICES [ … ]

Through our expert directory, podcast, and online magazine, we highlight the voices of writers, researchers, artists, journalists who are often overlooked. Find us at nuvoices.com. You can support us through one-time, monthly, yearly donations: nuvoices.fundjournalism.org/donate/

Dear NüVoices community, We are so pleased to announce that we are officially recognized as a non-profit in the U.S. and donations from August 1, 2024 are now tax-deductible! NUVOICES [ … ]

Through our expert directory, podcast, and online magazine, we highlight the voices of writers, researchers, artists, journalists who are often overlooked. Find us at nuvoices.com. You can support us through one-time, monthly, yearly donations: nuvoices.fundjournalism.org/donate/

At @nuvoices.bsky.social, we are dedicated to diversifying and amplifying women and non-binary voices on China. We are an NGO and an editorial collective of volunteers. This Giving Tuesday, consider supporting our work!
nuvoices.fundjournalism.org/donate/

"Yet somewhere between the lecture hall and the public stage, many of these women quietly disappear from view." While some pursue other careers and paths, those in the policy ecosystem find themselves invisible as keynote speakers, panelists, podcast hosts, and guests. Read more on the report here:

"Anyone familiar with European universities knows that China studies is not a male-dominated subject. Lecture halls in London, Berlin, or Prague are full of young women dissecting China’s political system,studying Mandarin,and producing essays on Chinese foreign policy,economy, security or society."

Research by Women Insight on China (WiCH) initiative found that in hundreds of events and podcast episodes relating to China organized by European think tanks, nearly 45 pct were "manels" (all-male panels), another 16 pct only had a female moderator. Almost 2/3s of podcast guests and hosts were men.

CALL FOR PITCHES: China Books Review is looking for writers!

Do you have an argument about a recent book on or from China and the greater Sinophone world? If so, reach out to their editors at info[at]chinabooksreview.com

See all details (including rates) here: chinabooksreview.com/submit/

In ‘Foretokens,’ poet Sarah Howe parses the puzzle of her inheritance Do we ever really understand the forces that make us? And if we do find the key to decoding our own personal histories, in uncovering where each of us comes from––are we able to change what that means for how we move through each day? From the mother who carried you to the mother you will become, what is passed on? These are the questions that drive Foretokens: ‘to decipher the riddle of her’––the mother––motherland, mother tongue, mother’s pain. The new collection has been shortlisted for this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize:

Foretokens is the highly anticipated new collection from poet Sarah Howe. In her review, Heather Irvine delves into the collection's central exploration of inheritance. Read the review: nuvoices.com/2025/11/06/i...

We LOVED meeting all of you New Yorkers at our creative reading & karaoke salon/thanksgiving party, hosted by board members @laujessie.bsky.social and @meganisonline.bsky.social
in partnership with Accent Sisters at their beautiful space and @aajaofficial.bsky.social – thank you for your support!

NüVoices Podcast #126: A Conversation with Maya Wang on the Future of Chinese Human Rights Advocacy  This week, NüVoices host and co-founder Joanna Chiu joins China human rights researcher Maya Wang to discuss the current state of China human rights advocacy amid Beijing’s growing transnational oppression and the US cut of international aid. 

NEW EPISODE: Join NüVoices host and co-founder Joanna Chiu joins China human rights researcher Maya Wang to discuss the current state of China human rights advocacy amid Beijing's growing transnational oppression and the US cut of international aid: