{"id":15764,"date":"2026-05-22T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/?p=15764"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:04:37","slug":"a-conversation-with-author-curtis-chin-who-gets-to-belong-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/?p=15764","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Author Curtis Chin \u2014 Who Gets to Belong in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AACYF\/\u6d1b\u6749\u77f6\uff082026\u5e745\u670822\u65e5\uff09 &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant\u201d is Curtis Chin\u2019s humorous and deeply reflective memoir about growing up as a Chinese American in 1980s Detroit. Chin\u2019s family restaurant, Chung\u2019s Cantonese Cuisine, served as a gathering place for residents grappling with racial and economic tensions, as well as the first recorded hate crime, the murder of Vincent Chin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this special briefing, held to commemorate AAPI Heritage Month, Chin will explore identity, and the question many immigrants grapple with: being between worlds. The familiar restaurant phrase: \u201cfor here or to go\u201d becomes a metaphor for belonging. How is \u201cAmerican\u201d defined, and who gets to define it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fresh off a 10-country book tour, Chin will also discuss how Americans are perceived in other parts of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-guest-speaker\"><strong>Guest Speaker<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"987\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260522-ACOM-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260522-ACOM-1.jpg 987w, https:\/\/aacyf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260522-ACOM-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aacyf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260522-ACOM-1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aacyf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260522-ACOM-1-720x404.jpg 720w, https:\/\/aacyf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260522-ACOM-1-520x292.jpg 520w, https:\/\/aacyf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260522-ACOM-1-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aacyf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260522-ACOM-1-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 987px) 100vw, 987px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Curtis Chin<\/strong>, co-founder of the Asian American Writers\u2019 Workshop. His latest film for PBS, Warren King: King of Cardboard, premieres this month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AACYF\/\u6d1b\u6749\u77f6\uff082026\u5e745\u670822\u65e5\uff09 &#8211; Everything&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,19,6,41,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-others","category-6","category--others","category-54"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15767,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764\/revisions\/15767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacyf.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}