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Author: Susan Blumberg-Kason

Susan Blumberg-Kason spent her childhood in suburban Chicago dreaming of the neon street signs and double-decker buses of Hong Kong. As soon as she was old enough, she moved there to study. Her memoir, Good Chinese Wife (Sourcebooks, 2014), recounts her years in a Chinese family as a wife, daughter-in-law, and mother.
March 23, 2018 Culture / Family / Life in Asia / Life in the West / Mother-In-Law

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

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February 19, 2018 Culture / Life in Asia

Celebrating Chinese New Year in a Bygone Era

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

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January 7, 2018 Culture / Life in Asia / Life in the West / News

#MeToo in Greater China

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

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November 6, 2017 Kids / Life / Life in Asia / Relationships

Returning to Shanghai 20 Years Later

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

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October 27, 2017 Life / Life in Asia

Sense of Place in a WWAM Relationship

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

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August 30, 2017 Family / Kids

When is the right time to let your child travel to Asia on his own?

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

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July 7, 2017 Books

Book Giveaway! “Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls” by Ban Zhao

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

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June 13, 2017 Family / Life / Life in Asia / Mother-In-Law / Relationships

How Living in Hong Kong Turned Me into a Feminist

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

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May 26, 2017 Family / Kids / Relationships

Five Tips for Raising Kids After A WWAM Break-Up

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

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April 3, 2017 Life in Asia

Does This Wedding Make Me Look Fat?

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

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