How did an Afghan woman journalist’s writing resonate in China?

A story of cross-border empathy between Chinese readers and Afghan women

Originally published on Global Voices

Letters from an Afghan woman. Image used with permission.

When Afghan journalist Khadija Haidary fled the Taliban, she never imagined that her writing would reach readers thousands of miles away in China. Yet it did — prompting small but meaningful acts of support that empowered her to move forward amid her uncertain situation. In China, where civil society is tightly...