About Susan Blumberg-Kason

‘Hong Kong Noir’: WWAM Relationships in Literature

It’s so unusual to find novels with romantic relationships between Asian men and Western women. In fact, it’s so uncommon

With the recent Brett Kavanaugh hearings and confirmation, women around the world have looked on aghast, wondering how an entitled

When I married in China back in 1995, many members of my family had grand plans to attend my wedding

It’s hard to believe that 20 years ago I delivered my first child–and learned about 滿月 or 坐月子 as I

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