Susan Blumberg-Kason

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    • When Friends Come From Afar
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A year in photos–2016

December 27, 2016 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

I can't wait for 2016 to be over and done with. Go. Away. Already. But to stay positive until then, I was fortunate to experience quite a few highlights. In January, I wrote the introduction for the re-release of Ban Zhao's Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls (Camphor Press, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Asian Food and Drinks, Author Readings, Eileen Chang, Good Chinese Wife, Hong Kong, Memoirs, My Family's Travels, old hong kong, Raising Multi-Cultural Kids, vintage hong kong

Book the week–How to Hong Kong

December 11, 2016 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

It always seems like I end one year and start a new one reading books published by Blacksmith Books in Hong Kong. Today as I waited for my kids at Sunday School and stayed indoors as the snow blanketed Chicago, I sat down with Lena Sin and Nicholas Tay's How to Hong Kong: An … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book of the Week Tagged With: Asian Food and Drinks, Hong Kong, Memoirs, old hong kong, vintage hong kong

Book of the week–Hong Kong: An Appointment with China

December 4, 2016 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

Hong Kong has never been more at a crossroads with One Country, Two Systems than it is now. So to understand more, I recently delved back into the past with Steve Tsang's 1997 narrative, Hong Kong: An Appointment With China (I. B. Tauris, 1997).On a personal level, I never … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book of the Week Tagged With: Hong Kong, old hong kong, vintage hong kong

Paperback sale!

November 23, 2016 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just around the corner, I'm excited to offer a special discount on the paperback edition of Good Chinese Wife! If you live in the US, I can offer it for $5 a copy including shipping.If you're overseas and are interested, please contact me at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: China, Good Chinese Wife, Hong Kong, Jewish Asia, Memoirs, Misc, My Family's Travels, old hong kong, Raising Multi-Cultural Kids, vintage hong kong

Good Chinese Wife e-books $3.99 this weekend!

November 12, 2016 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

 Exciting news! The Kindle and Kobo editions of Good Chinese Wife are on sale this weekend (through November 14th) for the super low price of US$3.99! That's less expensive than a fancy coffee and half the cost of a cocktail.And if you read Italian, that edition … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: China, Good Chinese Wife, Hong Kong, Jewish Asia, Memoirs, Misc, My Family's Travels, old hong kong, Raising Multi-Cultural Kids, vintage hong kong

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