Event

The Yoonmee Chang Memorial Lecture welcomes author, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin.

Please join us on Wednesday, March 27, 2025 at 5PM for a conversation about his recent award-winning memoir, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant." Chin's book was recently featured in the New York Times. Read the article here!

Curtis Chin is the author of the award-winning memoir, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant." A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write comedy for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Emancipator/Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. His essay in Bon Appetit was just selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023 and his short doc, "Dear Corky" premiered on American Masters (PBS). He is currently working on a new docuseries on the history o Chines restaurants in America.