When Friends Come from Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago's Chinese American Service League - Couverture souple

Blumberg-Kason, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252088182 ISBN 13 : 9780252088186

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252088182
• ISBN 13: 9780252088186
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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