Chin's humour-filled memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, tells his story about growing up Asian in Detroit and coming out to his working class immigrant family, all set against the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s, AIDS, and his family's popular Chinese restaurant. The book has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, as well as CBS Saturday Morning News and NBC News. It's also been honoured by the State of Michigan and the American Library Association.

The first transnational and interlingual conceptual history of ethnicity, Ethnos of the Earth (Cambridge University Press, 2024) reveals the pivotal role this concept played in the making of the international order. Rather than being a primordial or natural phenomenon, Heiskanen argues, ethnicity is a contingent product of the twentieth-century transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states.

Join us for a book talk with comments from Dr Musab Younis, Associate Professor of Political Theory (Oxford) and Dr Faridah Zaman, Associate Professor of History (Oxford).