In “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” Chin writes candidly about growing up in 1980s Detroit and coming to terms with being gay.
Curtis Chin in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood. The filmmaker and activist's new memoir is "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant." 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 familiar setting, where he’s most relaxed and himself: a Chinese restaurant.
That journey has included stints writing for television, publishing essays in outlets like Bon Appétit and making social-justice documentaries. In 1991, Chin co-founded the Asian American Writers’ Workshop with three other writers in New York.
“Having to write a memoir pulls you back and forces you to open wounds you thought you’ve moved on from,” Chin said. “I felt like I needed to be honest about things where I was the good guy and when I was the bad guy, because nobody’s perfect, right?” Chin grappled with his identity as a gay man, too, and he details in his book how lost he felt compared with other students who proudly came out in college. He chose to wait to come out to his parents until he turned 26, partly because he wanted to first find a partner worthy of introducing to them, he said.
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