Elizabethan houses and town halls may seem slightly out of place in China. But in 2017, construction began on a replica of a medieval English town in the city of Fuzhou, the capital of the industrial Fujian province. This project hasn’t just been an exercise in creative architecture. It’s been an attempt to reconstruct Stratford-upon-Avon – the home of England’s great bard, William Shakespeare. 

Critics say London must hold Beijing to account on security, human rights

*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.

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

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...

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.”

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 ...

*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

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…

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...

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.

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

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.

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

*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.

*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.

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...

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