NüVoices
139 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe NüVoices podcast is hosted by NüVoices members Chenni Xu, Cindy Gao, Joanna Chiu, Sophia Yan, Jessie Lau, and Megan Cattel who explore the work of women in media, academia and the arts in Greater China, the impact of abuses of power, international and domestic politics, and their own personal stories. This podcast is wholly coordinated, produced, and edited by the NüVoices board.
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Illustrator Kaitlin Chan on her graphic novel, 'Eric's Sister'
April 03, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBThis week, we have prolific cartoonist and illustrator Kaitlin Chan joining the podcast to discuss her recently published graphic novel, 'Eric's Sister.' Kaitlin talks about why she wanted to focus a narrative on sibling relationships, family, creative doubt, and the importance of friendship and community. This episode was hosted by Megan Cattel and produced by Kyle Leung and Megan Cattel.
Leta Hong Fincher on the 10th Anniversary Edition of her book, Leftover Women
March 13, 2024 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBWhen Leta Hong Fincher’s book “Leftover Women” was first published ten years ago, it was considered a seminal work on Chinese feminism. The book outlines the structural discrimination, wholly reinforced by the government, used to demonize educated women in their late twenties and early thirties who remain unmarried. A decade later, and with Xi’s continual reinforcement of patriarchal ideals and traditional family structures, the book is more pertinent than ever. This week on the podcast, h...
A Conversation with Fuchsia Dunlop on her book, Invitation to a Banquet
February 14, 2024 05:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBHappy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate! To kick off the year of the dragon, we have the one and only Fuchsia Dunlop on our podcast this week. She discusses her recent book, 'Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food.' This episode is hosted by Lijia Zhang. Thank you for your interest in our bimonthly, independent podcast. To support our editorial goals and help us keep producing podcast episodes, please consider donating through our Paypal page or becoming a Patreon member. W...
Feminist Activism Then & Now, a Conversation with Wanqing Zhang, Lijia Zhang & Jessie Lau
January 31, 2024 15:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBThis week, NüVoices board members and co-hosts Jessie Lau and Lijia Zhang are in conversation with Wanqing Zhang, an independent journalist, to discuss China's feminist movement taking place online. Despite formidable challenges such as censorship, harassment, and societal pressures, these feminists continue to resist patriarchal norms, as revealed in Wanqing's recent in-depth feature for Rest of World. In the podcast episode, Wanqing shares the stories of women she spoke to regarding this ...
'How to Have an American Baby' with documentary filmmaker Leslie Tai
January 17, 2024 10:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBEveryone in our NüVoices community: happy 2024! To start the new year, host Solarina Ho delves into the new captivating documentary, "How to Have an American Baby" with filmmaker Leslie Tai. An exploration of a shadow economy catering to Chinese tourists seeking U.S. citizenship for their newborns, the film unveils the fortunes and tragedies of the mothers involved. Leslie Tai, the creative force behind this documentary, is a recipient of the 2019 Creative Capital Award and an MFA graduate ...
Darice Chang and Rita Jhang on #MeToo in Taiwan
December 06, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBIt has been more than half a year since a Facebook post referencing the Netflix drama Wave Makers sparked a wave of #MeToo revelations across Taiwanese society. In this episode, we trace the origins of the movement, what has happened since, and where things stand going forward with guests Darice Chang and Rita Jhang. Alongside host Solarina Ho, they also share their insights and perspectives on the attitudes and conflicts over #MeToo issues, feminism, the challenges that arise when competing...
Covering Taiwan, Centering Local Perspectives: A Journalism Panel with Silva Shih, Afore Hsieh, Wen-Yee Lee, and Emily Y. Wu
November 22, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBIn this special collaboration with Ghost Island Media, host Emily Y. Wu discusses the importance of local and diverse perspectives when it comes to global coverage of Taiwan. Taipei-based journalists Silva Shih, Afore Hsieh, Wen-Yee Lee join Emily in this wide-ranging discussion. Taiwan's upcoming election has become one of the most closely monitored events in decades, drawing the attention of foreign press members, international scholars, and think-tank or trade delegations. This heigh...
Pearl Low on Cantonese Connection and heritage language learning
November 08, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBHave you ever been laughed at by family or friends when you tried speaking a new language? It's particularly disheartening when it’s the language your family speaks. In this episode, we speak to artist and illustrator Pearl Low on the difficulties of finding safe spaces for language learning, especially for heritage language learners. Heritage language learners are people who have a certain language in their family, can understand it to a basic degree, but cannot speak it fluently. Learni...
Taiwan's LGBTQ History with Wen Liu
October 25, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBIn this week's episode, we delve deep into the LGBTQ movement in Taiwan. Our guest, Wen Liu, brings her expertise as an assistant research professor at Academia Sinica, adding valuable insights into the history and evolution of queer rights in Taiwan. Wen Liu and our host, Sophia Yan, explore the movement's origins, its pivotal moments, and the courageous individuals who paved the way for progress. Furthermore, the conversation touches on the challenges that lie ahead for the LGBTQ communi...
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian on her new book, Beijing Rules
October 11, 2023 11:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBThis week, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, China reporter at Axios, joins host Joanna Chiu to dive deep into her latest book, Beijing Rules. In its pages, Bethany details China's sophisticated strategy of leveraging its economic prowess, manipulating both access and denial, to shape the behavior of individuals, governments, and companies globally. Bethany illustrates how entities are compelled not just to avoid crossing Beijing's red lines, but also to actively support the CCP's interests. Joanna...
Clarissa Wei and Ivy Chen on their new cookbook, Made in Taiwan
September 27, 2023 09:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBJournalist Clarissa Wei and chef Ivy Chen join us this week to talk about their new book Made in Taiwan: Recipes and Stories from the Island Nation. According to host Solarina Ho, Made in Taiwan is both timeless and timely, and is more than a recipe book. It's a celebration of Taiwanese culture and its people through its unique culinary identity. In this episode, we discuss how food fits into discussions around identity, common culinary misconceptions, Indigenous and Hakka influences, how ...
Julia Lovell on China's Hidden Century, an exhibit at The British Museum
September 13, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBWe're flying into fall with new episodes two weeks in a row! Scholar and author Julia Lovell is in conversation with host Lijia Zhang about her role as chief organizer of The Hidden Century, an exhibition currently on display at the British Museum until October 8th. The exhibition is the first of its kind to pay tribute to the creative expression and individuality of the Qing dynasty – an era usually more associated with foreign aggression, violence, and turmoil than culture or artistic expr...
A Conversation with Yun-Ching Ko on the Taiwan Innocence Project
September 07, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBHappy end of summer! We're continuing our Taiwan series with Yun-Ching Ko, campaign director for the Taiwan Innocence Project (TIP), the only NGO in Taiwan that's committed to exonerating the wrongfully convicted by providing legal services and working to reform the judicial system. In this episode, Ko delves into her work with host Sophia Yan and discusses cases she has worked on. Those interested in criminal justice won't want to miss this episode. About TIP: "Taiwan Innocence Project (...
Adapting YA bestseller 'Loveboat, Taipei' to the big screen with Abigail Hing Wen
August 16, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBAuthor Abigail Hing Wen joins NüVoices to discuss her NYT best selling YA novel, Loveboat, Taipei and its film adaptation Love in Taipei, based on the summer study tour that started more than half a century ago. For the price of a plane ticket and about $400, diaspora students between 18 and 23 from the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere participated in the government-subsidized, six-week language and cultural summer program. At its peak during the 1990s, some 1,000 students descended onto Taiwan ...
Our 100th Episode Special! Remembering Coco Lee, Janet Yellen's Visit to China, and More
July 26, 2023 09:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBThis week, we’ve reached the 100th episode of the NüVoices podcast! To celebrate, we’ve brought together hosts Megan Cattel, Solarina Ho, and Sophia Yan for a panel discussion with a grab-bag of topics – from geopolitical current events to pop culture. We’ll be discussing the recent news of Coco Lee’s death, and the hosts share their favorite songs as well as what the singer meant to them. They’ll also dive into U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s visit to Beijing during a time of worse...
Introducing our Taiwan Mini-Series: Yu-Jie Chen on China-Taiwan relations
July 12, 2023 01:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBFor the next half year leading up to the elections in Taiwan, we will be bringing you a mini-series focusing entirely on the island, from domestic politics to its relationship to neighboring China. For this first installment of the Taiwan mini-series, host Sophia Yan speaks to Yu-Jie Chen, an assistant research fellow from Academic Sinica who focuses on Human Rights and International relations with a specific focus on cross-strait relations. Not only does Yu-Jie provide listeners with one ...
"Seeking Western Men: Email-order Brides Under China's Global Rise" with Monica Liu
June 21, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MB"Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes—younger ... brides being paired with older Western men. These ideas are more myth than fact, Monica Liu finds in Seeking Western Men." This week, NüVoices host Solarina Ho speaks with sociologist and assistant professor Monica Liu about her new book, Seeking Western Men, which explores the phenomenon of global internet dati...
A Conversation with Charlotte Ming and Beimeng Fu of Far & Near
June 14, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBThis week, NüVoices co-host and editor of the podcast, Megan Cattel speaks to Charlotte Ming and Beimeng Fu, two founders of the Far & Near Substack newsletter. Far & Near aims to depict China in all its complexity by shining a light on the country's visual journalism and showing the human side of some of the biggest headlines coming out of the country. At a time where in-depth, on-the-ground reporting on China is becoming all the more stripped down, Far & Near is a much-needed glimpse int...
A Conversation with Crystal Tai on the Rise of Chinese Digital Nomads
May 31, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBChinese millennials are fed up with the 996 grind (working from 9 AM until 9 PM, 6 days a week) and are going remote. Office workers across the country are freelancing, consulting clients, and starting their own businesses from their laptops; some are traveling to neighboring countries and regions with cheaper living costs. To shed light on this trend, Jing Daily's senior editor, Crystal Tai, is on the podcast to discuss her reporting on this subject. The rise of China's digital nomads coi...
Jan Wong on her Legendary Journalism Career
May 17, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBThis week, NüVoices host and co-founder Joanna Chiu speaks to Canadian journalist and author Jan Wong. Jan was one of very few foreigners able to travel to China during the Cultural Revolution where she talked herself into studying at Peking University before working as a news assistant in the New York Times’ first Beijing bureau. Back then, the “office” consisted of two rooms in the Peking Hotel, one for the journalist and one that Jan shared with the driver and an interpreter. Jan Wong...
A Conversation with Yaxue Cao, founder of ChinaChange.org
May 03, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBThis week, Yaxue Cao, the founder and editor of ChinaChange.org, joins the NüVoices podcast. ChinaChange.org is an English-language website devoted to news and commentary related to civil society, rule of law, and human rights activities in China. She works to help the rest of the world understand what people are thinking and doing to effect change in the country. Reports and translations on China Change have been cited widely in leading global news outlets (like The New York Times, The Wa...
What the West Gets Wrong about TikTok with Zeyi Yang
April 12, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes - 24.7 MBToday, we have a special guest on the podcast (and a worthy NüVoices ally) MIT Tech Review reporter, Zeyi Yang! Together with co-hosts Megan Cattel and Solarina Ho, Zeyi talks about China's initial reception to ChatGPT and all the uproar and suspicion surrounding TikTok. What are valid concerns surrounding the app and Bytedance? What are oversimplifications made by members of Congress and Western media? We touch on all this and more in the episode. About Zeyi Yang: As a reporter for MIT Tec...
The World of Chinese Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Translation with Emily Xueni Jin
March 29, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBThis week, host Megan Cattel speaks to science fiction and fantasy translator, Emily Xueni Jin, on the art of translation and the rise of Chinese science fiction. During the course of this discussion, Emily explains her process of translating work, and the special relationship she develops to writers who are bilingual themselves. The result is often a collaborative process, as Emily herself explains, “In a way, you basically develop a voice for them in the English language. Which they, in t...
A Conversation with Tania Branigan, author of Red Memory
March 08, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBTrigger warning: This episode briefly mentions suicide at 01:15 and 15:45. This week host Lijia Zhang speaks to Tania Branigan, current Foreign Leader Writer and former China Correspondent at The Guardian. In this episode, they discuss her new book Red Memory, about the Cultural Revolution, and more importantly about the suppression of memories, and how a society comes to terms with a tragedy deeply rooted in its psyche. In the course of writing the book, Tania spoke to people who were af...
A Conversation with Lindsay Wong, author of Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality & The Woo-Woo
February 22, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBA Ming Dynasty courtesan who transforms into a zombie. A family of ghosts wreaking havoc on a local hot spring. Elite Hong Kong bankers who are secretly serial killers. Welcome to the world of Lindsay Wong's new short story collection Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality, a pleasantly grotesque series of "immigrant horror stories." Lindsay joins Joanna Chiu and Megan Cattel to discuss all things writing, publishing, and why the horror genre attracted Lindsay while writing about Chin...
A Conversation with Liza Lin on Digital Surveillance in China
February 08, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBThis week we speak to Liza Lin, an award-winning journalist and technology reporter at The Wall Street Journal who has covered China for over a decade on topics ranging from digital surveillance to venture capital. Liza has reported on the acceleration of digital tools like facial recognition in China, tracing the initial large investments in this sector to its implementation by the Chinese government to oppress Uighurs in Xinjiang. This reporting is the basis of her book Surveillance State ...
The End of China's Zero-Covid Policy with Dr. Jennifer Bouey
January 25, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBNote: As current events regarding Covid are rapidly changing, we want to acknowledge that this episode was recorded in early January 2023. In this first episode of our 2023 season, Dr. Jennifer Bouey, an expert on global health equity and security, is here to make sense of zero-Covid's sudden end in China. Following the 20th Party Congress last fall, the signal from the top seemed to suggest that China would continue to stay the course on zero-Covid. Few could have imagined the sudden di...
Encore: Revolutionary feminism, wuxia, and the politics of translation, with Yilin Wang
January 11, 2023 23:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBThis episode was originally released May 29, 2021 * Stay tuned for our new season starting on January 25, 2023! * Learn more about Yilin's new upcoming book, The Lantern and the Nightmoths Yilin Wang (she/they) is a Vancouver-based writer, editor, Chinese-English translator, educator, and cultural consultant who was longlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction. Her work engages with topics such as Chinese folklore, martial arts lit...
Our 2022 Year-End Recap: A Discussion with the NüVoices Podcast Team
December 14, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBAs 2022 draws to a close, so must this season of the NüVoices podcast. But fear not! Before we sign off for a winter hiatus, we wanted to bring together our team to reflect on the past year. Joanna Chiu, Rui Zhong, Solarina Ho, Megan Cattel, and Saga Ringmar come together to discuss our podcast's highlights, our favorite episodes, and what we hope to achieve next year. We also delve into the anti-COVID lockdown protests that swept China late last month in response to the apartment fire in Ur...
A Conversation with Angela Hui, author of Takeaway
November 30, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24 MBThis week, journalist Angela Hui joins the NüVoices podcast with board member (and occasional pod host) Lijia Zhang! Angela discusses the major inspirations behind her memoir, Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter. She writes that growing up in a Chinese takeaway — helmed by her parents — in the Welsh countryside was anything but peaceful. Angela was responsible for translating the menu, dealing with outrageous customers, and preparing orders for the usual weekend rush. Viol...
Becoming a Stand-up Comedian with He Huang
November 16, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MB"Hello everyone, my name is He. It's spelled as H-E. Yes, it is my name, not my pronoun." Last month, Sydney-based comedian He Huang went viral with her 4-minute Australia's Got Talent audition. She joked about xenophobia, racism, and the pressure from family to settle down and get married. While these aren't unusual topics in the stand-up world, He's dead pan delivery and charisma won over viewers from just about every social media platform around the globe. We had the chance to talk to H...
A Conversation with Sue-Lin Wong on 'The Prince' podcast & China's 20th Party Congress
November 01, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBThis week, Sue-Lin Wong of The Economist discusses her new podcast 'The Prince: Searching for Xi Jinping'. This eight-part series details the life of Xi Jinping — from his tumultuous youth during the Cultural Revolution, his early political career in Fuzhou, to his ascent as the leader of China. Sue-Lin talks about the challenges of creating a podcast about China from abroad, and finding sources to talk about sensitive topics such as internet censorship, surveillance, and more. Sue-Lin an...
A Conversation with Sue-Lin Wong on 'The Prince' podcast & China's 20th Party Congress
November 01, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBThis week, Sue-Lin Wong of The Economist discusses her new podcast 'The Prince: Searching for Xi Jinping'. This eight-part series details the life of Xi Jinping — from his tumultuous youth during the Cultural Revolution, his early political career in Fuzhou, to his ascent as the leader of China. Sue-Lin talks about the challenges of creating a podcast about China from abroad, and finding sources to talk about sensitive topics such as internet censorship, surveillance, and more. Sue-Lin an...
A Map for the Missing, a Conversation with Belinda Huijuan Tang
October 19, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MB"I think a lot of the ways that Chinese people are talked about are as these passive receptors of historical events, people that things happen to, rather than people who have agency in their own lives and who make decisions in their own lives... So I wanted to write a book that was about characters living through momentous, historical times, but I didn't want their entire personhoods to feel like they were defined by those times." This week, we talk to Belinda Huijuan Tang about her debut...
Chinese Canadian Immigrant Histories with Arlene Chan and Melanie Ng
October 05, 2022 17:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBIn this episode of the NüVoices podcast, historians Arlene Chan and Melanie Ng chat with us about the first Chinese migrants who made their way to Canada in the 19th century. From there, Arlene and Melanie retrace the throughline of Chinese Canadian migration, from exclusionary anti-Chinese immigration laws to present-day sinophobia found in many Western countries today. We also learn about Arlene's trailblazing mother, Jean Lumb, who played a major role in changing Canada's racist immigra...
Food journalism & Taiwanese cuisine with Clarissa Wei
September 22, 2022 00:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week, veteran food journalist Clarissa Wei joins us on the NüVoices podcast! Clarissa was previously a senior reporter for Goldthread - a publication incubated by the South China Morning Post - where she created over 100 videos about Chinese food, culture, and cuisine. Now based in Taipei as a freelancer, Clarissa has recently reported on cross-strait relations between Taiwan and China for VICE, the end of Zero-Covid in Taiwan for The New Yorker, and the sustainability of food systems f...
A Conversation with Emily Feng, NPR's Beijing Correspondent
September 07, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBWe're kicking off our fall 2022 season with a special conversation between Emily Feng of NPR and Joanna Chiu, NüVoices chair and co-founder. In this episode, Emily walks us through her hard-hitting reporting from the frontlines in Ukraine to a viral controversy surrounding her radio report on 螺螄粉 luósīfěn, snail noodles. Emily also discusses the beginning of her journalism career in China—from freelancing, landing a job at the Financial Times, and eventually becoming NPR's Beijing cor...
A Conversation with Emily Feng, NPR's Beijing Correspondent
September 07, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBWe're kicking off our fall 2022 season with a special conversation between Emily Feng of NPR and Joanna Chiu, NüVoices chair and co-founder. In this episode, Emily walks us through her hard-hitting reporting from the frontlines in Ukraine to a viral controversy surrounding her radio report on 螺螄粉 luósīfěn, snail noodles. Emily also discusses the beginning of her journalism career in China—from freelancing, landing a job at the Financial Times, and eventually becoming NPR's Beijing cor...
Podcast Crossover: Rough Translation and China's Anti-Work Vibes
August 24, 2022 22:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBWe're proud to present our last summer cross post with NPR's Rough Translation! In this episode, host Gregory Warner talks to reporter Emily Feng about the rise of anti-work culture in China. While you may have heard about the term 躺平 or "lying flat", Emily delves into 丧文化, or the sang subculture, which embodies cynicism and defeatism in response to China's particular flavor of late-stage capitalism. Later in the episode, Emily discusses how the Chinese government is trying to stamp out the ...
Podcast Crossover: Rough Translation and China's Anti-Work Vibes
August 24, 2022 22:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBWe're proud to present our last summer cross post with NPR's Rough Translation! In this episode, host Gregory Warner talks to reporter Emily Feng about the rise of anti-work culture in China. While you may have heard about the term 躺平 or "lying flat", Emily delves into 丧文化, or the sang subculture, which embodies cynicism and defeatism in response to China's particular flavor of late-stage capitalism. Later in the episode, Emily discusses how the Chinese government is trying to stamp out the ...
Taiwan and US Foreign Policy with Meia and Veerle Nouwens
August 10, 2022 09:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBThis week we’re interrupting our summer hiatus to bring you insight into US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan the most senior elected US official to visit Taiwan in a quarter of a century. In retaliation, China has engaged its military in days of drills that escalated tensions to their highest in years. What did Nancy Pelosi hope to achieve by going to Taiwan and can we say that the trip was a success? How will this visit affect China-US relations and what are the pros and cons o...
Podcast Crossover: Self-Evident, 'A Day at the Mall'
July 27, 2022 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBHello from our summer hiatus! While we're away, the pod squad is thrilled to share episodes from podcasts we love and admire. This week, we have an episode from Self-Evident, a podcast for reported stories, personal histories, and participatory local events — all by and about Asian Americans. Co-host and NüVoices board member Cindy Gao introduces today's episode. Thank you Cindy! (Description below courtesy of Self-Evident. Episode was originally aired on January 18, 2021.) "When pro...
Podcast Crossover: Time to Say Goodbye on the documentary 'Ascension'
July 13, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBHello from our summer hiatus! While we're away, the pod squad is thrilled to share episodes from podcasts we love and admire. This week, we have an episode from Time to Say Goodbye, a podcast about Asia, the Asian diaspora, politics, and international solidarity. Thank you to hosts E. Tammy Kim, Jay Caspian Kang, and (formerly) Andy Liu for letting us cross post this episode. Kudos to our podcast co-host Cindy Gao, for introducing this cross post and briefly emerging from dissertation work. ...
Outsourcing Repression with Lynette Ong
June 29, 2022 09:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBProfessor Lynette Ong joins us on the podcast this week to discuss her new book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. While in conversation with Joanna Chiu, Lynette discusses China's use of nonstate actors who minimize resistance during government land grabs, housing demolitions, and (perhaps most notably) tracking foreign journalists while conducting sensitive reporting in China. Who are these nonstate actors? How are they recruited and why are they hired? Lyn...
Diversity in the Audiobook Industry with Voice Actress Nancy Wu
June 15, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBNancy Wu, a masterful voice actress and audiobook narrator, joins the NüVoices podcast this week to talk about her storied career. She has narrated the “Avatar the Last Airbender” prequels by F.C. Yee and Michael Dante Di Martino, the "X-Men Mutant Empire" series for Marvel, and books by Amy Tan, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu and Sayaka Murata. You may also recognize Nancy's voice in the audiobook for China Unbound, written by NüVoices board member Joanna Chiu! In this episode, Joanna and Nancy discus...
Diversity in the Audiobook Industry with Voice Actress Nancy Wu
June 15, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBNancy Wu, a masterful voice actress and audiobook narrator, joins the NüVoices podcast this week to talk about her storied career. She has narrated the “Avatar the Last Airbender” prequels by F.C. Yee and Michael Dante Di Martino, the "X-Men Mutant Empire" series for Marvel, and books by Amy Tan, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu and Sayaka Murata. You may also recognize Nancy's voice in the audiobook for China Unbound, written by NüVoices board member Joanna Chiu! In this episode, Joanna and Nancy discus...
Writing as Cultural Revenge: A Conversation with Elaine Hsieh Chou on her novel 'Disorientation'
June 02, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBTIME STAMP, SPOILERS FOR DISORIENTATION BEGIN AT: 33:20 We welcome Elaine Hsieh Chou (pronounced "Shay-Chow") to the podcast to talk about her debut novel, Disorientation. Her book is a hilarious satire on modern day college campus free speech wars, orientalism in academia, "yellow fever", the phenomenon of white scholars and translators devoting their entire lives to East Asian studies, and more. We talked to Elaine about a frequent topic of conversation in the NüVoices community: who has...
Encore: Literary translation and language as resistance, with Anne Henochowicz
May 19, 2022 09:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBAs we gear up for the summer season, the NüVoices podcast is revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the archives. This week, we have a conversation with board member Anne Henochowicz, who works at the intersection of literature and human rights. She has translated leaked propaganda directives and subversive Weibo posts, investigative journalism and poetry. She is currently the translations coordinator at China Digital Times and leads the NüVoices chapter in Washington, D.C. Board mem...
Dancing on Bones, a Conversation with Katie Stallard
May 04, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBThis week, journalist and former foreign correspondent Katie Stallard joins the NüVoices podcast in a special, live stream recording to celebrate the launch of her new book Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea. Katie discusses her writing and research process, the significance and perspectives of WWII within these three authoritarian countries, and her analysis of Russia's current invasion of Ukraine. Joanna Chiu, NüVoices founder and board member, moderates t...
Dancing on Bones, a Conversation with Katie Stallard
May 04, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBThis week, journalist and former foreign correspondent Katie Stallard joins the NüVoices podcast in a special, live stream recording to celebrate the launch of her new book Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea. Katie discusses her writing and research process, the significance and perspectives of WWII within these three authoritarian countries, and her analysis of Russia's current invasion of Ukraine. Joanna Chiu, NüVoices founder and board member, moderates t...