The Secret Menu
$31.45
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
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 - often in immigrant-run restaurants. But there are secret menus in every aspect of life, cheat codes that promise to help us navigate a new home, or a new life in the best possible way: a promise that, if you…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398552074 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398552070 |
| Author: | Shiamin Kwa |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| 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
- Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic
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