Crossing Cultures in Marriage & Life

Part 2 of my interview with Susan Blumberg-Kason

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 recounted in her memoir Good Chinese Wife. Part 2 of our conversation, then, revolves around the romantic allure of China and the challenges, for women especially, of marrying across cultural boundaries, in defiance of convention.