Feb 28-Mar 5, 2011 Omaha, Nebraska Charlie Chin was a student of the late Storytelling Master, Leong Chi Ming of Toisan China, from whom he learned the "Teahouse Style" of Chinese Storytelling. Wearing the Chinese scholar's robe and using the paper folding fan, Chin has presented Traditional Chinese Storytelling at schools, libraries, museums, and festivals across the United States and Canada. He has published two children's books and his stage plays have been produced in New York City, Boston, and San Francisco. Chin has been a featured teller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN, at several regional storytelling festivals and works year round as a storyteller in the California Bay Area. Chin has been teaching, performing, writing and composing for more than 30 years and was awarded a Community Scholar's Certificate by the Smithsonian Institution in 1988 in recognition of his work in Asian American Studies.