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Nov 3, 2023 · Chung’s is the backbone of Chin’s recent memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” which chronicles his experience growing up Chinese American as the third-born of ...
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Nov 6, 2023 · Jireh (they/them) is the 2023-24 fellow at the Los Angeles Times and a queer Asian American writer and filmmaker born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley. Curtis Chin grew up in 1980s Detroit ...
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Oct 18, 2023 · In “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” author Curtis Chin describes coming of age in Detroit’s Cass Corridor Chinatown neighborhood.In the ’70s and ’80s, his parents ran a popular Chinese restaurant (Chung’s, which was open from 1940-2000), where Chin spent many hours working while also absorbing the community around him, an experience that included coming to ...
This “vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers). Served up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and structured around the very menu that graced the tables of Chung’s, Everything I ...
Oct 18, 2023 · Curtis Chin's memoir tells his story of growing up in 1980s Detroit. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP. For Curtis Chin, the family restaurant he grew up with in Detroit will always feel like one of the ...
Oct 11, 2023 · Chung’s former building at 3175 Cass Ave. sat vacant for two decades before being sold earlier this year. The new owners plan to open an Asian-inspired restaurant in its place, which leaves Chin ...
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Oct 17, 2023 · Curtis Chin's new memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” which comes out Tuesday, is a candid, sometimes funny reflection on growing up Chinese American and gay in ...
