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 for the Comics Studies; and Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic.