Minyue Ding

Minyue Ding

Multimedia journalist / Content creator / Storyteller

Enthusiastic, highly motivated bilingual journalist with extensive experience producing distinctive, engaging news content for screen, radio, print and digital media platforms in Australia and China. 

Can be contacted at (+61) 0451910332 and email minyueding@gmail.com.

The Sydney Morning Herald •

Flights, cameras, action: Anthony Albanese travels to a restless China

Feminists, the LGBTQ community and liberal students have all been targeted by the Chinese Communist Party as it clamps down on groups that may threaten the increasingly hardline ideology of President Xi Jinping. “Once again, entertainment is not superficial, behind it are real-life scars,” wrote one user on Chinese social media site Weibo. On Thursday, many of the same generation mourned the loss of former premier Li Keqiang, who died of a heart attack. The Chinese government responded by censor
SBS Language •

Could this world-first coral research save the Great Barrier Reef?

Every year, several days after a full moon, Luchang Shao returns to a lab of aqua tubs wearing a red headlamp and waits. That's because coral spawning season has arrived. Under red light, replicating lighting conditions in the natural underwater environment, he waits for when coral starts to spawn “one by one like firecrackers,” describing the event as “pure excitement and joy”. Coral spawning is a natural, yearly phenomenon where various coral species simultaneously release sp
SBS Language •

Gold diggers-turned-goal kickers: How Australia’s Chinese community has excelled in footy since Gold Rush

In 1882, 17-year-old Henry George Chin Kit played for the Ironbark Football Club against Charing Cross in the Bendigo Football League. It remains a mystery how he, being Chinese, learned to play Australian Rules football in those days. The son of a Guangdong Taishan migrant who followed hundreds of his compatriots to Australia during Victoria's Gold Rush, Henry became the first player with Chinese heritage documented to have played Australian Rules football.
The Sydney Morning Herald •

Why the Little Mermaid tanked in China

Gong Ziji was sceptical when he heard Halle Bailey had been cast as Ariel in The Little Mermaid. Gong, like many Chinese fans of the film, found it jarred with his childhood memories of the Disney princess. The 21-year-old from Chongqing in south-western China has a collection of more than 40 Ariel dolls. All of them have red hair and white skin. But he wept when he heard Bailey, a black R&B singer from Atlanta, Georgia, sing Part of Your World, the epic hit track that straddles Ariel’s identi
SBS Language •

Melbourne's Chinatown divided over lighting tribute to King Charles

The colour of the decorative lighting over Chinatown in Melbourne has been changed from red to gold until June 18 to commemorate the coronation of King Charles III, according to Eng Lim JP, the Vice President of the Chinatown Precinct Association. However, some vendors and visitors have queried the move to express allegiance to the newly crowned British King. This is not the first time that the Chinatown Precinct Association has changed the lighting in honour of the British Monarchy.
The Age •

Why the Liberals are desperate to win back Chinese-Australians

At May’s federal election, as polling booths closed and votes were tallied, a trend began to emerge in suburban Melbourne and Sydney. Chinese-Australian voters were turning against the Coalition. The Victorian-seat of Chisholm, which has more Mandarin-speakers than any other federal electorate, fell to Labor, as did the seat of Reid in Sydney, which shares similar demographics. The swing was interpreted as a backlash by Chinese-Australians to some of the more combative language used by Coalitio
The Sydney Morning Herald •

Sculpture by the Sea defends controversial map of China

The chief executive of Sculpture by the Sea has defended an artwork that depicts Taiwan as part of China, arguing it is a “beautiful piece of work” that does not carry a political message. Taiwanese community leaders have claimed the artwork misrepresents the status of the self-governed island that China claims as its own. Mao Ling Gang’s “Earth is Flat” sculpture is one of more than 100 artworks featured at this year’s exhibition, which ran between Tamarama and Bondi Beach in Sydney’s eastern
SBS Language •

‘Cultures entwined’: Research uncovers long history of First Nation’s and Chinese blended families

In 1989, while travelling around Broome in the Kimberley region in Western Australia, Chinese artist Zhou Xiaoping met an Indigenous musician named Jimmy, who had the Chinese family name of Chi. As his journey continued, Mr Zhou said he met people from another Aboriginal community in Halls Creek, another town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. “I was excited because the shape of their faces had Asian characteristics,” he told SBS Chinese. Since that time, he has been
SBS Language •

‘An invisible net is tightening’: China records spike in citizens ‘running away’ amid fears of sexual violence and unending COVID policy

“Free consultation on studying in Australia for all sisters from today, based on my personal experience, hope I can provide some useful information, even a little is good. Something is rotten.” The was a post by Jiaqi Ren written on Red, a Chinese Instagram-like social media platform, on June 11, just a day after a video of women being brutally attacked in Tangshan, a city in Northern China, went viral and stirred up fury across the country. The video showed three women being attacke
SBS Language •

'I couldn't take it any longer': domestic violence victim says post censored by Chinese social media

Ms Gu*, who said she endured months of abuse at the hands of her ex-partner, posted images of what she suffered as well as a step-by-step, self-help guide to others who might be experiencing something similar. However, she claimed her post, shared on a Chinese Instagram-like social media platform called Red, was effectively "censored" by being swiftly removed within 24 hours. “The line between care and control can be very blurry,” Fan Yang, a research assistant at the Alfred Deakin I
SBS Your Language •

‘We’re lucky’: Chinese Australian leaves Shanghai’s strict lockdown which has trapped 25 million residents

• More than 200,000 positive cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the locked-down city of Shanghai since the start of March • Many Shanghai residents have been able to organise group home deliveries of medical and food supplies while others have experienced shortages • Leaving mainland China for Australia during a nation-wide surge in COVID cases requires precision planning, according to one man who returned to Australia with his family on Tuesday
SBS Your Language •

Not invited: Heartbreak for Chinese community as parents denied entry despite border reopening

• Fully vaccinated parents of Australian citizens and permanent residents were able to enter Australia from November last year • People over the age of 60 who have been dosed with Chinese vaccine Sinopharm are not considered fully vaccinated by Australian authorities and therefore cannot enter the country • From February 21, travellers did not need to have their relationship with their adult Australian children confirmed before travel For many Australians from Asian countries, Lunar New Year i
SBS Your Language •

Australia has pledged to replace graduate visas, but some won't be enticed back

• A migration counsellor says the new policy will fail to attract talent back to Australia as they may have already found jobs in their home countries. • One student tells SBS Chinese the policy is “unfair” as it only applies to graduates offshore, rather than those who decided to stay and make the most of their “precious” work rights in Australia. • International graduates whose visas have expired can apply for replacement visas from July 1, 2022
SBS Your Language •

Australia will soon open to the world, but many Chinese students aren't in a rush to return

• Chinese students make up a third of the international student sector - Australia’s biggest service export • Australia’s international education sector is worth around $20 billion, half of what is was worth in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic • Despite Australia’s borders reopening to international students by the end of the year, some Chinese students are weighing up their study options and reconsidering their move to Australia
Mojo News •

One family, two generations of investment in Australia

One family, two generations of investment in Australia This Chinese investor bought a house on a whim for her daughter so she would have somewhere to live when she came to Melbourne to school, but the local property market looks less impressive now. In this two-part series, MINYUE DING looks at two generations investing in Australia As 13-year-old Luxin Yang was having her ice-skating class at one of the largest shopping malls in China, her mother was doing something unexpected. Zhao Zhang, 3