01928cam a2200337 i 4500 1269102837 TxAuBib 20240509120000.0 230925s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316507653 hardcover 0316507652 hardcover (OCoLC)1370001599 TxAuBib rda Chin, Curtis, author. Everything I learned, I learned in a Chinese restaurant : a memoir / Curtis Chin. First edition. New York : Little, Brown, 2023. 304 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couplescould sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city's spiraling misfortunes; and wherebetween helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctionshe realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself."-- Provided by publisher. 20240509. Chin, Curtis. Chinese restaurants Michigan Detroit. Asian American gay men Michigan Detroit. Gay activists Biography. Nineteen eighties. Detroit (Mich) Social life and customs. TXKIP