Everything I Learned I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant (AAPI Event)

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The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies is excited to host Curtis Chin for a talk inspired by his memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. In this candid and compelling book, Chin shares his story about growing up Asian in Detroit and coming out to his working-class immigrant family, all set against the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s, AIDS, and his family's popular Chinese restaurant.

Curtis Chin is a co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City and served as the non-profit’s first Executive Director. He went on to write comedy for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. His films have been screened at over 600 venues across twenty countries. Chin’s writing has appeared in CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press, and the Emancipator/Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. His memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, was published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023. His essay in Bon Appetit was selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023.

This event was made possible by the following programs and offices:
Academic English for Multilingual Students, Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Center, Asian Pacific American Studies, Asian Studies, Center for Research, Artistic, and Scholarly Excellence, Communication Studies, Critical Diversity Studies, Cultural Centers, Media Studies, Department of Rhetoric and Language, English Department, Gender and Sexualities Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, MA in Migration Studies, MA of Fine Arts in Writing, McCarthy Center, Office of Alumni Engagement, Office of Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Tracy Seeley Center for Teaching Excellence