A biography for Kevin Kwanhasn’t been written yet.
“It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.”
“I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.”
“I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers.”
“Growing up in Singapore, I wasn't allowed to visit China. So when I was finally able to go there after the country began opening up to tourism in the 1990s, I found it to be utterly astounding.”
“One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.”
“I love romantic comedies more than anything.”