When I was in college in the late eighties and early nineties, most American students who wanted to study Mandarin overseas either went to Beijing or Taiwan. I chose Hong Kong. It sounds as crazy as it was. Practicing Mandarin there was so difficult because shop owners and restaurant staff and just about everyone else […]
American Susan Blumberg-Kason is the author of Good Chinese Wife, which recounts her years in a Chinese family as a wife, daughter-in-law, and mother. Susan also contributed the excellent introduction to the Camphor Press edition of Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls. She blogs at susanbkason.com. In the mid-1960s, my mom spent a year in […]