About Susan Blumberg-Kason

In the Eye of the Beholder: The Pressure to be the Same

Last week I saw my friend Li after our kids got out of school for the day. Li knows more

Have you ever lost a meaning in translation because you didn’t quite understand another culture? That happened to me the

The first time I felt trapped was in a service elevator in a Washington, DC YMCA. I was 22 and

Imagine if you married overseas and spent much of your first summer together in a city foreign to the two

Many years ago I moved to Hong Kong to study. I met a Chinese student and married him six months

When I divorced my first husband 17 years ago, the last thing I wanted was to let our two-year-old son

When I was writing my memoir, Good Chinese Wife, my agent asked me to find some tongue-in-cheek quotes to add

It wasn’t like I hadn’t grown up in a feminist household. My mom and her only sister had gone to

We all go into relationships hoping for the best. More times than not we just assume our happily ever after is

Back when I was in the market to buy a wedding dress in Hong Kong and China, I had the