Kwai-yun Li’s Hakka parents emigrated from Moi-yen, China, to Calcutta, India, where Kwai was born.
She grew up in Chattawalla Gully in the old part of the city, and emigrated to Canada through an arranged marriage in the 1970s. She has written about her childhood in Calcutta in her various books including The Palm Leaf Fan and A Kiss Beside the Monkey Bars, a collection of short stories. Her books are used as texts in university curriculum at Jadavpur, New York and the University of Toronto.
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