NüVoices
140 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 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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Chinese cuisine in America, with Simone Tong
August 21, 2020 21:15 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBSimone Tong is a chef and co-owner of Little Tong Noodle Shop and the newly opened restaurant Silver Apricot in New York City. Cindy sat down with her to discuss her life as a chef and restaurateur in New York during the pandemic, Chinese cuisine and identity in America, and the inspiration behind the food she cooks. Recommendations: Simone: Educated, by Tara Westover. Cindy: The works of Grace Lee Boggs. This podcast was edited and produced by Jason MacRonald. See Privacy Polic...
Mobility for Africa, with Shantha Bloemen
August 07, 2020 21:02 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBShantha Bloemen is the founding director of Mobility for Africa, a social enterprise that aims to bring the electric mobility revolution to rural Africa. Having spent the last two decades working in international humanitarian and development assistance in Africa and Asia, she is now eager to put her experience into this venture, which she believes will improve the lives of rural women. Shantha is a keen observer of China's growing footprint in Africa. She is specifically focused on C...
The nation of diaspora: April Zhu on reporting from Nairobi, part 2
July 31, 2020 20:02 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBApril Zhu is a freelance journalist and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on gender, urban inequality, and China-Kenya relations. In this episode, NüVoices board member Cindy Gao talks to April about: How Nairobi is a city with a plot Why covering women's issues helps us understand power "Ecosystems" of violence in Nairobi's informal settlements Why the opposite of Sinophobia is not Sinophilia, but nuance What is missing in "China-Africa" discourse Resources:...
A city with a plot: April Zhu on reporting from Nairobi, part 1
July 24, 2020 20:48 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBApril Zhu is a freelance journalist and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on gender, urban inequality, and China-Kenya relations. In this episode, NüVoices board member Cindy Gao talks to April about: How Nairobi is a city with a plot Why covering women's issues helps us understand power "Ecosystems" of violence in Nairobi's informal settlements Why the opposite of Sinophobia is not Sinophilia, but nuance What is missing in "China-Africa" discourse Resources: ...
Izzy Niu on storytelling and conditional belongingness
July 10, 2020 20:28 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBIzzy Niu is a freelance journalist and producer who most recently hosted the Webby Award–winning video series at Quartz called Because China. In this episode, NüVoices board member Cindy Gao talks to Izzy about her journey from China to the United States, a few of her media projects, including Loud Murmurs, a Mandarin-language podcast about social and political issues in American pop culture, and her evolving sense of identity and belongingness in her adopted home. This podcast was ...
Creative entrepreneurship with Qian Zhang
June 12, 2020 20:25 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBQiàn Zhāng 张倩 is a cross-border creative entrepreneur who founded the tea brand The Pu'er Movement while at Harvard Business School, and currently serves as chief of staff to the global president at SharkNinja. Qian is an alumni of the famed Alibaba Global Leadership Academy, which was conceived of and now mentored by Jack Ma himself. In this episode, Qian and NüVoices board member Chenni Xu talk about her time at Alibaba, what she learned from that cross-cultural bridge-building ex...
Seeking creativity through multimedia journalism with Yuan Ren
June 01, 2020 20:57 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBJournalism is a tough industry to break into, but expanding your multimedia and broadcast skills is a great way to enhance your versatility and job prospects. For Chinese journalist Yuan Ren, who has worked as a Time Out magazine editor and a columnist for U.K. newspapers The Telegraph and The Prospect, transitioning into broadcast media helped her fire up her creativity and experiment with creative storytelling. In this episode, she shares her best tips and tricks for making the...
Foreign correspondence and China, with Megha Rajagopalan
May 15, 2020 15:26 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBMegha Rajagopalan is an award-winning international correspondent for BuzzFeed News, based in London. In this conversation recorded on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in London and New York, Megha and NüVoices board member Chenni Xu discuss Megha's career trajectory from the U.S. to China, the Middle East, and beyond. This includes her award-winning reporting, her time on the board of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China, and musings about the current and future direction of fo...
Gender, self-discovery, and vibe curation with Mengwen Cao
May 01, 2020 20:53 - 56 minutes - 39 MBMengwen Cao is a photographer, multimedia artist, and cultural organizer. In this conversation recorded during the first week of lockdown in New York City, Mengwen and NüVoices board member Cindy Gao talk about their process of co-creation with their subjects, recent works that investigate the in-between space of race, gender, and cultural identity, the emotional work we all have to do in our own homes and minds while in isolation, and taking abundant delight in greater representatio...
Coronavirus and the racism epidemic
April 20, 2020 20:27 - 56 minutes - 39 MBAs racism and the COVID-19 virus spread simultaneously, Asian people around the world are finding themselves terrified to step outside — and not just because they're worried about getting sick. In this episode, NüVoices chair Joanna Chiu interviews NüVoices co-founder Sophie Lu and journalist and author Jessie Tu, who both live in Sydney. All three have experienced the harmful effects of people conflating the actions of the Chinese government with Chinese citizens, and even with th...
U.S.-China cyber competition and cooperation with Julia Voo
April 03, 2020 20:33 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBJulia Voo is the research director for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center’s new China Cyber Policy Initiative. In this episode, Julia and NüVoices board member Cindy Gao talk about China's increased efforts to influence international technical standards, updates and challenges of the Digital Silk Road, how her Track II diplomatic work with the China Institute for International Strategic Studies contributes to mitigating cyber confrontation between the U.S. and China, and her ...
Di Wang on LGBTQ rights and representation in China
March 09, 2020 20:26 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBDi Wang is a feminist researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She joined NüVoices co-host Cindy Gao in Brooklyn to converse about the LGBTQ movement that is underway in China. In this episode, they discuss some of the social and legal challenges that gay and transgender individuals face, the rights that are afforded to members of China’s LGBTQ community, and terms used by that community to self-identify as well as how they came about. Recommendations: ...
A wealth of anger and a wealth of time: Wuhan and the coronavirus
February 14, 2020 20:40 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBWuhan native Rui Zhong is a program associate for the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center, in Washington, D.C. In this episode, Rui and co-host Cindy Gao work through a timeline of the spread of COVID-19, discuss tactics employed by the Chinese central government to co-opt the narrative surrounding the outbreak, identify those most affected by the virus within China, and take a look at xenophobic responses toward Chinese people around the world. ...
Chinese philanthropy in the 21st century
January 28, 2020 22:08 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBEmily Weaver, a social impact and philanthropy consultant who was based in China for over a decade, joins Chenni and Cindy as their guest this week. She has worked with major philanthropic organizations, such as Jet Li’s One Foundation and the Clinton Foundation, and is a founding member of the China Philanthropy Research Institute and the China Global Philanthropy Institute. In this episode, Emily provides detail on individual and digital gift-giving in China (as opposed to major ...
Chinese philanthropy in the 21st century
January 28, 2020 22:08 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBEmily Weaver, a social impact and philanthropy consultant who was based in China for over a decade, joins Chenni and Cindy as their guest this week. She has worked with major philanthropic organizations, such as Jet Li’s One Foundation and the Clinton Foundation, and is a founding member of the China Philanthropy Research Institute and the China Global Philanthropy Institute. In this episode, Emily provides detail on individual and digital gift-giving in China (as opposed to major ...
Reimagining Hong Kong's political communities
January 10, 2020 20:50 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBJessie Lau is a writer, editor, and researcher from Hong Kong who explores identity, human rights, and politics. Her writing has been published by The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, and Quartz, among others. In this episode, Lau speaks with Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and NüVoices chair Joanna Chiu about the generational divides and diverging opinions on the Hong Kong protests that have torn apart families. The episode also explores how the protests have made people recon...
Visual storytelling with Muyi Xiao
December 13, 2019 20:52 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBMuyi Xiao, the visuals editor at ChinaFile, is in the guest seat in this week’s episode of the NüVoices Podcast, hosted by Chenni Xu. In this episode, she talks about her previous work as a multimedia reporter at Tencent, the changing nature of the field of photojournalism, her fellowship at the Magnum Foundation, and her role at Chinese Storytellers, a collective that amplifies the voices of Chinese nonfiction content creators. For self-care, Muyi recommends therapy (she has Skype ...
Sino-Black relations with Keisha Brown
November 15, 2019 22:25 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBKeisha Brown is an assistant professor of history at Tennessee State University and a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. In this episode, she explains the history of Sino-Black relations, tells the story of influential African-American individuals like W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes and their ties to China, and the changing perceptions of race and identity in China. For self-care, Keisha recommends being kind to yourse...
Contemporary Chinese art and techno-orientalism with Xin Wang
November 01, 2019 20:46 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBXin Wang is a John Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and a Ph.D. student studying contemporary art at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts. Chenni Xu and Cindy Gao joined her for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of contemporary Chinese art: who are the major players, what defines it, and where to find it. She also discusses her own career and experiences as an art student and professional. For self-care, Chenni recommends yoga, and an awar...
Leading by example: Female success in the workplace
October 18, 2019 21:04 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBRachel Morarjee is the director of the Economist Corporate Network and a former foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. In this episode, she talks about the 30% Club, an organization dedicated to increasing the representation of women in high-level positions in the workplace, how to mindfully navigate modern work environments, and how her current work compares to her former experiences as a journalist. For self-care, Rachel recommends committing to something small but actiona...
Leading by example: Female success in the workplace
October 18, 2019 21:04 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBRachel Morarjee is the director of the Economist Corporate Network and a former foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. In this episode, she talks about the 30% Club, an organization dedicated to increasing the representation of women in high-level positions in the workplace, how to mindfully navigate modern work environments, and how her current work compares to her former experiences as a journalist. For self-care, Rachel recommends committing to something small but actiona...
Episode 18: Cultivating community in corporate culture
July 22, 2019 16:06 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBIn this episode of NüVoices, Alice Xin Liu interviews Chenni Xu, corporate communications head for Alipay in North America and a board member and local chapter co-head of NüVoices in New York City. Chenni discusses her experiences navigating the corporate world, from Brunswick to Alipay and from Beijing to America. She stresses the importance of forming strong peer networks, finding mentorship, and ensuring that during a meeting you always have a seat at the table — but not as the no...
Cultivating community in corporate culture
July 22, 2019 16:06 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBIn this episode of NüVoices, Alice Xin Liu interviews Chenni Xu, corporate communications head for Alipay in North America and a board member and local chapter co-head of NüVoices in New York City. Chenni discusses her experiences navigating the corporate world, from Brunswick to Alipay and from Beijing to America. She stresses the importance of forming strong peer networks, finding mentorship, and ensuring that during a meeting you always have a seat at the table — but not as the note taker...
NüVoices: Legal advocacy against domestic violence in China
June 20, 2019 20:10 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBIn episode 17 of the NüVoices Podcast, host Joanna Chiu sits down with Siodhbhra Parkin, the director of the new, nonprofit arm of SupChina, to discuss her work in the field of legal advocacy against domestic violence when she was based at an international non-governmental organization (NGO) in Beijing. The two discuss the inspiring efforts of anti-domestic-violence activists in China both before and after the passage of a new law that has made collaboration between Chinese and forei...
The musical life and career of director Shuang Zou
May 24, 2019 19:05 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBEpisode 17 of the NüVoices Podcast is here! This week, Alice Xin Liu is joined by co-host Zhāng Líjīa 张丽佳. The two interviewed Zōu Shuǎng 邹爽, a director and playwright. As of 2018, she was made the artistic director of the Beijing Music Festival, following in the footsteps of legendary conductor Maestro Yú Lóng 余隆. She was recently nominated at the 2019 International Opera Awards in London in the Newcomer category for her work as a director. Coming from a musical household, Shuǎng ha...
NüVoices: Rocking While Female
May 07, 2019 15:53 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBIn episode 15 of the NüVoices Podcast, co-host Alice Xin Liu interviews the co-founder and lead singer of Xiao Wang 小王, Anlin Fan. Since she started the band with her best friend, Yuyang, just a few years ago, Xiao Wang has become a staple of the Chinese rock and punk scene. When Anlin isn’t tearing up the stage, she spends her time finishing her master’s degree at McGill University. Here, she discusses growing up in China, the Riot Grrrl movement, tips on starting a rock band, her w...
Women and Chinese Sci-Fi: NüVoices Live at the Bookworm
April 12, 2019 22:01 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBRecorded live at the Beijing Bookworm Literary Festival, this week’s episode of the NüVoices podcast features a discussion with two prominent science fiction authors, Tang Fei and Ji Shaoting. The episode was recorded as part of a series of five live SupChina events at this year’s festival. Tang Fei and Ji Shaoting are both titans in the Chinese science fiction world. Tang Fei is a speculative fiction writer and a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her story "C...
‘Black Mirror’ China and Dystopian Female Futures with Cate Cadell
March 27, 2019 21:42 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBIn episode 13 of the NüVoices podcast, co-hosts Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu interview Cate Cadell, a tech writer for Reuters who is based in Beijing. Cate covers Chinese tech companies with a focus on cybersecurity, AI, surveillance, censorship, and ethics issues. This episode focuses on the troubled relationship between the Chinese government, technology, and ethics. In particular, spurred by recent, disturbing news of a leaked Chinese government database that gathered data on women...
Shui, on Beijing's 'zine scene
March 11, 2019 23:14 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBIn the 12th episode of the NüVoices podcast, Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu interview Shuilam Wong, who goes by Shui, a comic artist who partnered with Jinna Kaneko to create the Hole in the Wall Collective with Jinna Kaneko. The two high school friends met back up in the city and decided to create their own indie zines (self-published magazines). We talked to Shui about being born in Tokyo and raised in Beijing and London (where she went to Camberwell College of Arts, and where she fee...
Queer culture, perception, and representation within China
February 25, 2019 21:11 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBOn the first episode of the second season of the NüVoices podcast, Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu are joined by Alex Li, senior editor at Vice China. Alex has a Ph.D. in gender and sexuality studies and a master’s degree in psychology. She is also the host of the gender and sexuality channel Biede Girls for Vice China. Alice was previously a guest on her podcast, Biede Girls Podcast, to talk about her bicultural background. Alice, Sophie, and Alex talk about the meaning of "queer," bise...
Beijing Broads
December 12, 2018 22:46 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBIn the 10th episode of the NüVoices Podcast, Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu interview Anete and Silvia — members of the all-female improv group Beijing Broads! Comprising participants from seven different countries and six different first languages, the group has been performing for over two years. Alice and Sophie learn to improv with the infamous "sex with me" gag. They also talk with Anete and Silvia about supporting the charity Educating Girls of Rural China (www.egrc.ca), about come...
Long-Form Magazine Writing With The New Yorker's Jiayang Fan
November 28, 2018 22:39 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBIn this episode of the NüVoices Podcast, Alice Xin Liu and Joanna Chiu are live from New York! Following a heady and successful launch of NüVoices' first North American chapter, they reunite at the SupChina offices in Brooklyn and interview one of their idols: Jiayang Fan, staff writer and de facto China correspondent at The New Yorker magazine. Alice and Joanna interview Jiayang about her immigrant background, long-form magazine writing (especially her piece on Yan Lianke, "Forbidden...
Eleanor Goodman on the art of translating Chinese poetry
November 16, 2018 13:57 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBIn the eighth episode of the NüVoices Podcast, Alice Xin Liu, writer and translator, interviews Eleanor Goodman with guest host Lijia Zhang, author of Socialism Is Great! and most recently Lotus, and board member of the NüVoices Collective. Eleanor is the noted translator of Wáng Xiǎonī 王小妮, a poet who has been associated with the Misty Poets (朦胧诗派 ménglóngshī pài) but who is so much more, having penned 25 books of published poetry. Currently a research associate at the Fairbank Cente...
A rocket maker turned journalist: Lijia Zhang tells the stories of everyday people
October 31, 2018 20:21 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBIn the seventh episode of the NüVoices podcast, co-hosts Sophie Lu and Joanna Chiu interview author, journalist, activist, and NüVoices Collective editorial board member Lijia Zhang. But first, a reminder that the New York launch of the NüVoices Collective is happening this Thursday, November 1, at an event in Brooklyn, featuring Leta Hong Fincher, Rebecca Karl, and Lu Pin. Also, a important reminder that the deadline for submissions for the NüVoices Collective print anthology is comi...
Oral histories and family stories with Karoline Kan
October 10, 2018 20:58 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBOn the sixth episode of the NüVoices podcast, co-hosts Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu interview Karoline Kan 阚超群, a writer and reporter based in Beijing, currently working at the New York Times. Starting this autumn, Karoline will be the Beijing editor for China Dialogue, and her debut book, the memoir Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Love, Loss, and Hope in China, will be published by Hachette in March 2019. In this podcast, the piece that Alice mentions is “The Unwelcome Villager”...
Joan Xu on screenwriting in China
September 26, 2018 22:50 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBIn the fifth episode of the NüVoices podcast, Alice Xin Liu and Sophie Lu are joined by screenwriter Joan Xu. But first, Joanna Chiu announces the launch of the revamped NüVoices website, as well as online magazine NüStories, and the New York launch of the NüVoices Collective, in an event featuring Leta Hong Fincher, Rebecca Karl, and Lü Pin, moderated by Joanna, on November 1. Joan Xu is a budding screenwriter based in Beijing, working most recently on a forthcoming web series The C...
Technology and bias with Christina Larson
September 05, 2018 22:11 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBIn this fourth episode of the NüVoices Podcast, Alice and Sophie are joined by fellow NüVoices board member Christina Larson, a longtime science and technology reporter on China. The three discuss technology and bias, ranging from the State Council's social credit system from 2014 to how artificial intelligence mirrors the gender biases in China and the world, and why reproductive issues for a strong economy seem to fall on the shoulders of women. At the end, for self-care, they recom...
Meet fantasy writer Mima, who aspires to create China's Game of Thrones
August 22, 2018 23:05 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBIn this third episode of the NüVoices Podcast, Alice Xin Liu is joined by Sophie Lu, a board member of NüVoices who works in the cleantech and environment space. Sophie will be a rotating co-host with Alice and Joanna Chiu for future episodes! Our guest this week is fantasy writer Mima, known in China as Qima 七马 (she says she picked that name for her Chinese readers because “it looks like a man’s name…Of course, I don’t like that”). Her fantasy novel The Legend of Strangers 蝼蚁转 is a r...
China’s #MeToo momentum
August 09, 2018 21:55 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBIn this second episode of the NüVoices podcast, hosts Alice Xin Liu and Joanna Chiu interview Yuan Yang, the Beijing-based technology correspondent for the Financial Times, on how #MeToo has gained momentum in mainland China despite online censorship and university officials reportedly putting pressure on students to stay silent. Since Luo Xixi wrote on social media in January about how her former professor tried to rape her, many others have shared their stories and the movement has...
News assistants in China
July 18, 2018 21:25 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBAlice Xin Liu and Joanna Chiu interview two Chinese women who work as news assistants for foreign media in China. News assistants are sometimes dubbed "researchers," though they really are journalists who rarely get the glory of a top-of-the-page byline like foreign correspondents, despite doing much of the journalistic legwork.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.