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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...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Good Chinese Wife, Hong Kong, Memoirs, Misc, My Family's Travels, old hong kong, vintage hong kong

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...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Hong Kong, Memoirs, My Family's Travels, Raising Multi-Cultural Kids, vintage hong kong

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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Remembering Ma On Shan

August 3, 2019 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 2 Comments

Each day there’s a new headline about the turmoil in Hong Kong this summer, something inevitably hits a nerve with anyone who loves the city. This weekend areas that have been hurt have been Wong Tai Sin and Ma On Shan, among others.I lived in Ma On Shan for two short years, … [Read more...]

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The importance of hubs

August 2, 2019 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

As the turmoil in Hong Kong shows no signs of resolving, it's so hard to think of what will happen to my favorite city. I'm aware that Hong Kong's heyday may have passed long ago, but it's still an important city in Asia and in the world. It's difficult to think about Hong Kong … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: China, Hong Kong, My Family's Travels, old hong kong, Raising Multi-Cultural Kids, vintage hong kong

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