Sponsor Message What's the big deal? Chin's new memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant tells his life story of growing up in 1980s Detroit — infusing his focus on ...

But one terrific Chinese restaurant in Detroit called Chung's drew a very different-looking crowd. CURTIS CHIN: It was one of the rare places in the segregated city where everyone felt welcome.

Voices in this episode include Feodor Chin, Paul Dateh ... Eric Shimelonis plays the pipa: an ancient Chinese instrument that’s been described as elegant, playful, charming, and adaptable ...

BOSTON — When I sat down to talk to filmmaker, writer and activist Curtis Chin, it felt strangely like chatting with a friend I’d known for years. Maybe it was because I’d caught him in a ...

Chin says, recalling the heavy toll the Sars epidemic took on Hong Kong in 2003. “We decided that the drum was the best Chinese instrument [to do so].” This July, 20 years on, the popular ...

But Chin’s family restaurant, Chung’s, was an oasis on Cass Corridor where everyone was welcome to feast on American Chinese food: drug dealers, sex workers, gay men, touring Broadway performe ...

Curtis Chin’s memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” celebrates the cuisine and community of his youth. Now he’s paying it forward. By Elisabeth Egan Elisabeth ...

Curtis Chin knows how to stay busy. Speaking a few weeks before the Oct. 17 publication of his debut memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” he’s hard at work ...

Writer Curtis Chin on what growing up in a Chinese restaurant teaches about life Curtis Chin spent a lot of his childhood at his family's Chinese restaurant in Detroit. At one point, he assumed ...