Susan Blumberg-Kason

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Student protests in Seoul, 1987

December 10, 2019 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 1 Comment

The six-month (and counting) long protests in Hong Kong have drawn comparisons with the student protests in Seoul a year before the 1988 Olympics. My dad and I flew to Seoul in June 1987 as the protests heated up. I was sixteen.These are photos we took from our hotel. I can … [Read more...]

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong

November 13, 2019 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 5 Comments

My alma mater in Hong Kong has been in the news this week after it became a battle zone Monday night. I've posted photos of the campus before, but I wanted to put many of them here together just to show what a beautiful and peaceful place it was.The Chinese University was not … [Read more...]

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Letter from Hong Kong, August 1994

November 3, 2019 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

Just as e-mail was becoming mainstream in 1994, people still wrote real letters and I was no exception. I wrote to my grandma in Albany, New York, several times a month when I lived in Hong Kong. She kept all of my letters before she died at the age of 104.5 in 2007. This letter … [Read more...]

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Happy Halloween

October 30, 2019 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 1 Comment

Several years ago I spent Halloween in Hong Kong for the first time since just after the Handover. I was in the city on a quick layover, but with enough time to walk around my old haunts from the 90s. Kowloon has always been my favorite part of Hong Kong, maybe because it’s less … [Read more...]

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One week in Cartagena

October 27, 2019 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

It’s only taken me four months, but here are some photos of Cartagena, where my mom and I traveled this past summer. We decided to go there after meeting a number of travelers in Panama City the summer before, travelers who had just come from Colombia. We were … [Read more...]

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