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Part 2 of my interview with Susan Blumberg-Kason

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Aimee Liu
Dec 07, 2023
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This is the second part of my conversation with Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of the new biography about 1930s socialite Bernardine Fritz, Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon (Part 1 HERE).

Susan, like my own grandmother, married a Chinese man from Wuhan, China, and, also like my grandmother, ran into a number of insurmountable cultural road blocks, which she rec…

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