Curtis Chin is the author of the memoir Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. (Little Brown). A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Chin served as the nonprofit’s first executive director. He has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he has made two documentaries, Tested and Dear Corky, the latter of which premiered on “American Masters” on PBS.Chin and I zoomed about his memoir and about his formative years spent in Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, his family’s restaurant in […]
The Multitudes of the Family Restaurant: Q&A with Curtis Chin
by Evelyn Ch'ien
