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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.
February 11, 2019 Books

‘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

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November 5, 2018 Life in Asia

Assault and Coercion in Greater China

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

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June 15, 2018 Family / Life in Asia

When My Family Visited Me in China 23 Years Ago

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

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May 7, 2018 Family / Kids / Pregnancy

Rewriting the Rules of Confinement

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

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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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