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’.

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.

AI, tech competition, and geopolitics are reshaping China-focused careers. Hear experts break down risks, skills & new opportunities.

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). 

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. 

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

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...

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.

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.

*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.

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…

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 [ … ]

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:

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. 

The following article represents a first pilot attempt by the Women Insight on China (WiCH) initiative to audit gender representation in Europe’s China discours