Participant Info

First Name
Susan
Last Name
Blumberg-Kason
Country
United States
State
IL
Affiliation
Author
Website URL
http://www.susanbkason.com
Keywords
Hong Kong history, Judaism, politics, art, film, theater
Availability
Media Contact
Additional Contact Information
PhD
MA

Personal Info

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About Me

I have an MPhil in Government and Public Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and lived in Hong Kong for five years in the 1990s. I’m the author of BERNARDINE’S SHANGHAI SALON (Post Hill Press, 2023), WHEN FRIENDS COME FROM AFAR (University of Illinois Press, 2024), GOOD CHINESE WIFE (Sourcebooks, 2014) and the co-editor of HONG KONG NOIR (Akashic Books, 2018). I am a regular contributor to the Asian Review of Books, World Literature Today, and Cha: An Asian Literary Review. My writing has also appeared in Ms. Magazine, PopMatters, and the South China Morning Post.

Recent Publications

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ballet-in-the-city-jewish-contributions-to-the-performing-arts-in-1930s-shanghai/

https://msmagazine.com/2022/03/03/anna-may-wong-asian-women-history-bernardine-szold-fritz/

https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/ghosts-holy-war-1929-massacre-palestine-ignited-arab-israeli-conflict-yardena-schwartz

https://asianreviewofbooks.com/requiem-and-other-poems-by-aharon-shabtai/

Media Coverage
https://biographersinternational.org/news/podcast/podcast-193-susan-blumberg-kason/
Country Focus
Hong Kong, China, Israel
Expertise by Geography
Asia, China, Middle East
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Book History, Colonialism, Gender, Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexual Violence, Women, World War II