Suzanne Pepper (1939 – 29 June 2022) was a Hong Kong–based American

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and journalist. She was editor of the

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's ''China Review'' from 1995 to 1996.

Biography

Pepper left the United States for

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in the 1960s to begin

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studies. There she met fellow languages student VG Kulkarni, an Indian army officer posted to India's consulate in Hong Kong. After several years in New York where they married in 1970, they returned to Hong Kong in 1973. Pepper earned a PhD in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

from University of California at Berkeley in 1972. She authored a number of political science works focusing on China in general, and Hong Kong in particular. She was also a founding contributor to '' Hong Kong Free Press''. Pepper kept a blog, ''Hong Kong Focus'', which is now maintained by Hong Kong Free Press. Pepper was an honorary fellow of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an honorary lifetime member of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong. Pepper died on 29 June 2022 in Hong Kong, following a short illness.

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References

External links

Hong Kong Focus
– Pepper's blog, now maintained by ''Hong Kong Free Press'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Pepper, Suzanne 1939 births 2022 deaths Hong Kong journalists American women journalists American women political scientists American political scientists 21st-century American women Chinese University of Hong Kong people