The Secret Menu
Chinese Food and How I Made It
$54.59
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2027
Summary
In this irresistible memoir of food, family and migration, Shiamin Kwa relates her search for identity, authenticity and belonging – and how in the end, like every migrant, she created her own menu for life.
Kwa tells of first moving from Malaysia to the ‘You-Ess’ as a child, where she desperately tried to fit in; returning to her home town of Kuala Lumpur a year later to find herself an unwelcome foreigner in the place she had thought of as home; of struggling to adjust to the arcane…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398552067 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398552062 |
| Author: | Shiamin Kwa |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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Shiamin Kwa
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.
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