When Friends Come from Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago's Chinese American Service League (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780252046070)

Born in Hong Kong, Bernie Wong moved to the United States in the early 1960s to attend college. A decade later, she cofounded the Chinese American Service League (CASL) to help meet the needs of the city's isolated Chinese immigrants. Susan Blumberg-Kason draws on extensive interviews to profile the community and social justice organization. Weaving Wong's intimate account of her own life story through the CASL's larger history, Blumberg-Kason follows the group from its origins to its emergence as a robust social network that connects Chinatown residents to everything from daycare to immigration services to culinary education. Blumberg-Kason also traces CASL activism on issues like fair housing and violence against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

At once intimate and broad in scope, When Friends Come from Afar uses one woman's life to illuminate a bedrock Chicago institution.

Author: Susan Blumberg-Kason
ISBN-10: 0252046072
ISBN-13: 9780252046070
Publisher: 3 Fields Books
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2024
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs