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All the Tea in China

January 1, 2012 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 6 Comments

I'm so excited to feature guest blogger Stuart Beaton's fabulous post about the tea culture in China. I learned to drink tea in China, first as a survival tactic during my initial experience with a Chinese winter (Nanjing, 1991), and then as a true connoisseur. Stu's podcasts can … [Read more...]

Treasures from my family’s old Southeast Asian slides

December 30, 2011 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 8 Comments

Looking back at my 2011 blog posts, I'm drawn to a handful of old scanned photos I came across this year. Scanning my mother's and her family's old slides was like opening a jewelry box full of sparkling diamond necklaces. These photos were all taken in Asia in 1965.Angkor … [Read more...]

Jailed writers in China

December 28, 2011 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 10 Comments

So today is the 56th birthday of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. It's a bittersweet birthday, I'm sure, for a number of reasons.First, he's currently serving an 11 year prison sentence that's not due to end until 2020. And just last week two more Chinese writer/activists … [Read more...]

Black Christmas: the 70th anniversary of the Fall of Hong Kong

December 25, 2011 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 8 Comments

Christmas in Hong Kong meant something else this year: the 70th anniversary of the fall of Hong Kong, otherwise known as Black Christmas.Fighting broke out on December 8, 1941 and ended with British Hong Kong surrendering to the Japanese on Christmas Day 70 years ago--in the … [Read more...]

Chinese Christmas

December 25, 2011 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 4 Comments

Stuart Beaton writes about Christmas and China and how people celebrate--and what exactly it is that they're celebrating. (Check out Stuart's podcasts at http://rastous.podomatic.com/). Without further adieu, here's Stu:China may be a “Country of Godless heathens”, but they … [Read more...]