When I lived in Hong Kong, the Soho neighborhood was just getting off the ground. I remember going to a Lebanese restaurant there in the fall of 1996 with a group of friends. Around that time about half a dozen new restaurants had popped up and my friends were starting to hang … [Read more...]
Signs of the times: Hong Kong in the 90s
While the world is falling apart, I think back to an August afternoon many years ago when I flew off to Hong Kong during another global crisis: Gulf War I. I had never been to Hong Kong before, but was about to spend my junior year of college there and my flight was delayed eight … [Read more...]
The non-definitive Handover book list
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's Handover from Great Britain to China. While few have anything to celebrate and it's no more than a morose milestone, I thought I'd put together a list of books that people were reading in Hong Kong 20 years ago as the Handover … [Read more...]
Book Discussion with Sonali Dev
Thursday, August 3, 2017 - 6:00pm - 7:30pmSusan Blumberg-Kason and Sonali Dev will discuss writing as mothers, setting their stories overseas, and why we need diverse books. … [Read more...]
Hot off the press!
Last year I wrote the introduction for this classic Chinese text written by Ban Zhao, China's first female historian. Camphor Press reprinted the book and asked me to write the introduction because I'd quoted from Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls in my memoir.I'd … [Read more...]
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