When Friends Come from Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago's Chinese American Service League - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:3 Fields BooksISBN-13:9780252088186ISBN-10:252088182UPC:9780252088186Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asian & Asian American, United States, Social WorkBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCDV7FWB6H
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:3 Fields BooksISBN-13:9780252088186ISBN-10:252088182UPC:9780252088186Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asian & Asian American, United States, Social WorkBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCDV7FWB6H
Susan Blumberg-Kason is the author of Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China and Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong.
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