Susan Blumberg-Kason

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    • When Friends Come From Afar
    • Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon
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    • Hong Kong Noir
    • Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls
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Asian Pop-up Cinema opening night

September 17, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

How lucky was I to be invited to the opening night of Asian Pop-up Cinema in Chicago yesterday? Very! The brainchild of Sophia Wong Boccio, Asian Pop-up Cinema is a series of Asian films that will be screened in the Chicago area this fall--and beyond.The cocktail reception … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: China, Events, Misc

Catch an Author book fair

September 13, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 3 Comments

Yesterday I participated in my first ever book fair with Good Chinese Wife! I also met my new editor for Good Chinese Wife before the fair. It was really great to get to know Anna and learn all about her forthcoming YA novel, 26 Kisses (Simon Pulse, 2016). I can't wait to read … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Author Readings, Events, Good Chinese Wife, Memoirs

Book of the week–The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam

September 10, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 2 Comments

I'm not sure where I first learned about this beautiful graphic novel, but I think it was somewhere on Amazon. I love Chinese history, a good romance, and--kind of new for me--graphic novels. Ann Marie Fleming's The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir (Riverhead, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book of the Week Tagged With: China, Hong Kong, Memoirs, old hong kong, Raising Multi-Cultural Kids, vintage hong kong

New photos from my first year in Hong Kong!

September 7, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 2 Comments

I have no idea why I haven't posted these photos before. In fact, I haven't even taken them off their sticky album sheets since I first placed them there 24 years ago. When I looked closer at them tonight, I realized some were taken in places I'd forgotten I'd visited back then. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Hong Kong, My Family's Travels, old hong kong, vintage hong kong

Barware giveaway and more!

August 26, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

I am beyond excited to announce a fabulous raffle my publisher is offering now until September 30th.To celebrate the launch of novelist Charles Belfoure's new book, House of Thieves, Sourcebooks has an exciting giveaway. The first place winner will receive a bareware set and … [Read more...]

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