Join us in partnership with the Friends of the Library for a Virtual Authors Series event with Susan Blumberg-Kason ’92. She will discuss her biography of Bernadine Szold Fritz, Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China, a 2023 Zibby Awards finalist.

Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shanghai in 1929 to marry her fourth husband. Only thirty-three years old, she found herself in a time and place like no other. Like other Jewish women before her, she started a salon in her home, drawing famous names from the world of politics, the arts, and the intelligentsia. As civil war brewed in China and World War II soon followed, Bernardine’s devotion to the arts and the people of Shanghai brought joy to the city just before it would change forever.

Susan Blumberg-Kason ’92 is also the author of When Friends Come From Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago’s Chinese American Service League as well as Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair With China Gone Wrong. Susan spent her junior year abroad at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she also attended graduate school in the mid-1990s.

The event will be moderated by Marlene Trestman ’78, Phi Beta Kappa graduate, former AAGC president, former Hillel Board chair, former trustee of Goucher College, and author of Fair Labor Lawyer and Most Fortunate Unfortunates.

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