Staying in New York, Kwan worked for Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, and Tibor Kalman's design firm M & Co. in Media Studies from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, after which he moved to Manhattan to attend Parsons School of Design to pursue a B.F.A. When he was 11, his father, an engineer, and mother, a pianist, moved the family to the U.S., eventually landing in Clear Lake, Texas, where Kwan graduated from high school at the age of 16. Kwan is also related to Hong Kong-born American actress Nancy Kwan.Īs a young boy, Kwan lived in Singapore with his paternal grandparents and attended the Anglo-Chinese School. Paul Hang Sing Hon, founded the Hinghwa Methodist Church. Arthur Kwan Pah Chien, was an ophthalmologist who became Singapore's first Western-trained specialist and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his philanthropic efforts.

His great-grandfather, Oh Sian Guan, was a founding director of Singapore's oldest bank, the Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation. He was born in Singapore, the youngest of three boys, into an established, old-wealth Chinese family. Kevin Kwan is a Singaporean-American novelist best known for his satirical Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy (2013-17). Education-B.A., University of Houston-Clear Lake B.F.A., Parsons School of Design.Suddenly, Rachel is drawn into a dizzying world of Shanghai splendor, a world where people attend church in a penthouse, where exotic cars race down the boulevard, and where people aren’t just crazy rich … they’re China rich. Then a chance accident reveals his identity. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won’t be there to walk her down the aisle. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. T’s the eve of Rachel Chu’s wedding, and she should be over the moon. China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy 2)

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