KEVIN KWAN is the author of Crazy Rich Asians, the international bestselling novel that has been translated into more than 40 languages. For several weeks in 2018, the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy commanded the top three positions of the New York Times bestseller list, an almost unprecedented single-author trifecta, and the film adaptation became Hollywood's highest grossing romantic comedy in over a decade. Kevin’s latest novel, Sex & Vanity, was published in June 2020 and became an instant New York Times bestseller. In 2018, Kevin was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Recorded November 20, 2020.

Show Notes

• 4:03 KK talks about his path to success and how he would advise young Asians wanting to pursue a creative career
• 10:11 KK talks about his childhood and how to parent for creativity
• 13:53 KK on the cultural difference between Asians from Asia and Asian Americans
• 17: 21 KK on how the current wave of wealthy émigrés from China are influencing the Asian American zeitgeist
• 20: 30 KK on the phenomenon of “international Asians”
• 22:56 KK on the spirit of enterprise in the new Asia and what powers the drive to achieve characteristic of so many overseas Asian communities
• 26:51 KK on connoisseurship in Asia
• 30:57 KK on how Asia will define the new modern
• 36:23 KK on world cities across the globe, what drives their rise and fall, and life in LA vs. NY vs. Singapore vs. HK
• 42:21 KK on the process behind his new novel, Sex and Vanity
• 46:03 KK on his upcoming television and film projects and the process of taking his stories from print to film
• 48:03 KK on how he feels about the Crazy Rich Asians movie
• 52:45 KK on what inspires him
• 54:46 KK on how Asia fared so much better than the West in its response to COVID
• 57:47 KK on what he’s looking forward to doing post-COVID

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