Curtis Chin has been championing other Asian Americans for over 30 years.
His memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” comes out Tuesday. The book, his first, has made several fall “must-read” lists including in The Washington Post and Time magazine. It's a candid, sometimes funny reflection on growing up Chinese American and gay in Detroit in the '70s and '80s.
Chung's moved to Cass Avenue. The Cass Corridor became a second Chinatown. That's where Chin, born in 1968, spent his formative years. Chung's closed in 2000, after 60 years and an estimated “10 million eggrolls.” Roland Hwang, a Detroit native who co-founded American Citizens for Justice a year after Vincent Chin's racially motivated killing, has fond childhood memories of a bustling Chinatown. He would watch butchers chopping up chickens, or get a dragon puppet and play with other Chinese American kids. Chung's was among the restaurants he ate at. It wasn't until 1999 that he met Curtis Chin and they became friends. Hwang thinks the memoir does a service for the community.
Recent hate crimes have evoked comparisons to Vincent Chin's beating death at the hands of two white autoworkers outside his bachelor party. The assailants blamed foreign competition for the auto industry's hardships and assumed he was Japanese. His book has inspired an exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum. “Detroit's Chinatowns” opened earlier this month. Lily Chen, who curated the exhibit, said 20 people were interviewed for oral histories. Several others contributed artifacts, including a 70-year-old mahjong set, as well as videos and photos. Chin will give a talk on the book there on Nov. 12.
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