{"id":12641,"date":"2024-01-31T19:25:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/31\/tales-of-a-chinese-restaurant-kid\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:26:34","slug":"tales-of-a-chinese-restaurant-kid","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/31\/tales-of-a-chinese-restaurant-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of a Chinese restaurant kid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n

Author Curtis Chin shares coming-of-age story with Clarkies<\/p>\n

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Author Curtis Chin talks with students for an episode of the Challenge. Change. podcast.
\n<\/iframe><br \/>\n \n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium-large wp-image-47258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/Curtis-Chin-book-cover-1-181x280-2.jpeg\" alt=\"book cover\" width=\"181\" height=\"280\">At his family’s Chinese restaurant, a young Curtis Chin was encouraged to talk to strangers.  The Detroit eatery, called Chung’s, was founded by Curtis’s great-grandfather in 1940 and drew diners from all walks of life, including then-Mayor Coleman Young, Hollywood stars, drag performers, and sex workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chung’s closed in 2000, but the restaurant comes back to life in Chin’s memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On this episode of <strong>Challenge. Change.<\/strong>, the author-filmmaker shares the joys of being a “Chinese restaurant kid” during a discussion with Associate Provost and Dean of the College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/betsy-huang\/\" aria-label=\"Betsy Huang bio\">Betsy Huang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/programs\/majors-minors\/english\/#:~:text=The%20program%20encourages%20the%20development,live%20a%20life%20of%20consequence.\" aria-label=\"major in English\">English<\/a> Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/jeff-kisuk-noh\/\" aria-label=\"Jeff Noh bio\">Jeff Noh<\/a>, Chloe Yau ’24, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/programs\/majors-minors\/community-youth-and-education-studies\/\" aria-label=\"major in cyes\">Community, Youth, and Education Studies<\/a> major, and Zabrina Richards ’25, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/programs\/majors-minors\/political-science\/\" aria-label=\"major in political science\">political science<\/a> major.<\/p>\n<div class=\"csidebar right\"><\/p>\n<h4>Recent episodes<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p__small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2023\/12\/07\/the-story-of-queer-lives-in-true-crime\/\">Queer Lives, True Crime, and the Criminal Justice System<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p__small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2023\/11\/16\/utopian-problems\/\">Utopian Visions, Social Values, and Urban Design<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p__small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2024\/01\/25\/punches-and-politics\/\">Violence, Trauma, and Identity with Black Widow and Miles Morales<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Everybody goes to a Chinese restaurant. It’s one of the places where you can go and see people from a different race, socioeconomic background, class background, religious background, sexual orientation,” Chin says. “As a kid, I got to see all of Detroit. It was wonderful as a writer, as a creative person, to have that shape me as a kid.”<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chin also shared musings on family, identity, coming out, and getting famous <a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2024\/01\/18\/curtis-chin-puts-everything-hes-learned-on-the-menu\/\" aria-label=\"clarknow story\">during a conversation<\/a> with the wider campus community. The visit was part of Chin’s national book tour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Challenge. Change.<\/strong> is produced by Andrew Hart and Melissa Hanson for Clark University. Listen and subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4UuYAjq1d3Hq45cjwxoCNL\" aria-label=\"listen on spotify\">Spotify<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/challenge-change\/id1608025510\" aria-label=\"listen on Apple Podcasts\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>. 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