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Early life and career[edit]
Kwok was born in Hong Kong to Chinese parents who practiced Chinese folk religion at home. She converted to Anglican Christianity, when she was a teenager.

She started her BA at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, before moving on to do her BD and MTh at Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology. She gained her ThD from Harvard Divinity School,[2] finishing her doctoral dissertation on "Chinese Women and Christianity" in 1989, later published through Scholars Press.[3] She is the author of twenty books, including Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology (2005). She has published in the disciplines of feminist theology, postcolonial theology and biblical hermeneutics from her personal perspective of an Asian woman.

From 1992 to 2017, she was teaching at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was appointed the William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality.[2] Since Fall 2017, she has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Theology at Candler School of Theology.[4]

In 2011 she was elected President of the American Academy of Religion, a position she ran for on account of her desire to make more visible the presence of Asian women in theology and academia. She writes, "as leaders, we have to bring the tribe along. Those of us who are pioneers have the responsibility of opening the door a little wider for others to come."[5]