Name: "For Here or To Go?" - Boston
Start: 2024-11-17T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-17T17:00:00-05:00
Location: China Pearl Restaurant

A conversation on Chinese restaurants with writer Curtis Chin, restauranteur Brian Moy, and the Chinese Historical Society's Stephanie Fan.
About this Event

Chinese restaurants have a cherished place in America. And for Chinese Americans, they've been essential to our community's history and progress, a source of economic security, community engagement, and political empowerment. However, many of these businesses have been facing extraordinary challenges since COVID and the rise in anti-Asian hate. Please join us for this fun conversation on the history and current status of these cherished businesses.

This event is part of "For Here or To Go," a national series of conversations to discuss the history and future of Chinese restaurants in the US and promote the paperback release of author Curtis Chin's memoir, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant."

Light appetizers to be served. Maximum capacity is 50. First come, first Serve. RSVP required. Email [email protected].

EVERYTHING I LEARNED, I LEARNED IN A CHINESE RESTAURANT

"Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant," is my story about growing up Asian in Detroit and coming out to my working class immigrant family, all set against the Reagan Revolution of the 80's, the hate crime M**der of Vincent Chin, and my family's popular Chinese restaurant. Since its release, the book has been featured in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, as well as CBS Saturday Morning News and NBC News. It's also been honored by the State of Michigan and the American Library Association. Here is a segment that aired on PBS Newshour.

CURTIS CHIN

A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press, and the Emancipator/Boston Globe. His memoir, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" was published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023. His essay in Bon Appetit was just selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023 and he just produced an episode of America's Test Kitchen's podcast, Proof.