Shiamin Kwa

Photograph by Caroline Bittenbender

About The Author

Shiamin Kwa is a professor of East Asian languages and cultures and comparative literature at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend (with Wilt Idema); Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei’s "Four Cries of a Gibbon"; Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-First Century for the Comics Studies; and Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic.


 

Books by Shiamin Kwa

The Secret Menu

Chinese Food and How I Made It

By Shiamin Kwa

A culinary and philosophical memoir about the secret menus in every aspect of immigrant life, and what it really means to be 'Chinese'

What is the secret menu? Hidden from view but commonly known, it’s the menu that insiders pick from to be assured of a delicious, authentic meal ...

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