About Suzanne Pepper
Lived 1939 – 2022 (aged 82–83). Suzanne Pepper was an American political scientist.
Suzanne Pepper (1939 – 29 June 2022
Biography Pepper left the United States for Hong Kong in the 1960s to continue Chinese language studies that she had begun at the University of California at Berkeley. 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 from University of California at Berkeley in 1972.
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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