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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · 9d

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:

Carrying Chinese-ness Across South America

*Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here.

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Jessie Lau @laujessie.bsky.social · 9d

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:

‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support

Zhang Yadi was due to begin a degree in the UK but the activist vanished on holiday amid tensions over Dalai Lama

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Jessie Lau @laujessie.bsky.social · 14d

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 🔗

Baby snatchers

In a secluded shed, deep within the bamboo grove in a rural Chinese village, a woman gave birth to identical twin daughters. It was 2000, the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac – usually an ausp...

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · 14d

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:

NüVoices Podcast #124: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: A Conversation with Award-winning Author Barbara Demick

This week, NüVoices editor and board member Jessie Lau speaks to returning guest, award-winning author and journalist Barbara Demick, about her new book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins.”

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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Jessie Lau @laujessie.bsky.social · 21d

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

How Hong Kong’s dystopias became its reality

It is ten years since the film ‘Ten Years’ won its industry’s greatest accolade. Now the Chinese Communist Party has banned it—and stifled art in the ...

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · 23d

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...

Meet the Hong Kong migrant mums swapping the workplace for home life

*This feature was originally published in Initium Media on 26 July 2025. It has been edited and translated from Chinese into English by the author. Illustration: Angel Sun

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

Speculative Fiction Workshop: Write to Find the World You Want · Luma

Time: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. U.S. EDT / 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. BST Location: Zoom *** A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants one day before the workshop from…

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Jessie Lau @laujessie.bsky.social · Aug 29

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...

New Tide: What’s On in ESEA Heritage Month

When I first moved to London about six years ago, as a Hong Kong journalist excited to start a new life in the United Kingdom, I was completely unprepared for the challenges of navigating Britain’s me...

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Aug 29

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...

Overseas Chinese feminists call on Beijing to protect women from digital violence

Overseas Chinese feminists in London are calling on the Beijing government to strengthen protections against digital violence and the sexual exploitation of women, in the wake of a massive online sex scandal that recently rocked the nation.

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Aug 20

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...

Film Review: The Shadowless Tower (白塔之光)

This review is part of a series of reflections on Chinese films presented by the 2025 Beijing International Film Festival.

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Aug 13

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...

How a health scare turned a ‘boring as hell’ finance worker into a feminist comedian

It’s been three years since Kate Hu left her job as a quantitative analyst in finance to pursue stand-up comedy, a monumental career change that her traditional Chinese parents still know nothing about.

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Jessie Lau @laujessie.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

China’s cyber-abuse scandal: is the government unwilling to crack down on exploitation of women online?

Secretly filmed images of women are spreading online, yet the authorities seem more focused on censorship than punishing the perpetrators, critics say

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Aug 5

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...

Living in London, Belonging Nowhere

*Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here.

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Jul 29

“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...

I work in US policy – being Chinese is now an occupational hazard

*Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here.

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Jul 25

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...

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Jessie Lau @laujessie.bsky.social · Jul 19

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/...

In Hong Kong, domestic workers must walk a precarious tightrope. One stumble can be disastrous

Foreign domestic workers are the backbone of working families in Hong Kong. But they live in precarious labor conditions, lack crucial legal protections and are highly vulnerable to exploration. We sp...

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Jul 18

🎋 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...

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

Daughters Are Not Like Spilled Water | Los Angeles Review of Books

Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews recent books about the aftermath of China’s one-child policy and the experience of women in contemporary China.

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Jul 17

👇 @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)

Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Jul 17

My latest book (on resistance &repression in Thailand, Burma & Hong Kong is out in the US but comes out in the UK in a week—very glad to have Linda Jaivin’s review for it on Good Reads 👇 & interviews out like this @dissentmag.bsky.social one by Ross Perlin www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

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NüVoices 女性之音 @nuvoices.bsky.social · Jul 10

“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

Jessie Lau @laujessie.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

Planning my multicultural wedding was already difficult. Finding a dress was even harder | CNN

Jessie Lau thought dress hunting would be straightforward. But her anxieties became less about the look itself, and more about what it had come to represent, she writes.

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Jessie Lau @laujessie.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

Planning my multicultural wedding was already difficult. Finding a dress was even harder | CNN

Jessie Lau thought dress hunting would be straightforward. But her anxieties became less about the look itself, and more about what it had come to represent, she writes.

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