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When Friends Come From Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago's Chinese American Service League

By (author) Susan Blumberg-Kason

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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 cityâ€™s isolated Chinese immigrants. Susan Blumberg-Kason draws on extensive interviews to profile the community and social justice organization. Weaving Wongâ€™s intimate account of her own life story through the CASLâ€™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 womanâ€™s life to illuminate a bedrock Chicago institution.

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