When Friends Come from Afar

The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago's Chinese American Service League

Susan Blumberg-Kason (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2024 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08818-6 (ISBN)

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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 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.

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.

Foreword

The Ten Founders of the Chinese American Service League

Author’s Note

Prologue: Chinatown Diplomacy

Part I: The Early Years in the 1970s

Hong Kong Connections
Eleanor So and Her Seniors
Charitable Organizations and Connections
The Dentist’s Office
A Tale of Two Chinatowns

Part II: The Busy 1980s

In the Spirit of the Settlement Movement
Linda Yu to the Rescue
A Solution to a Very American Problem
Have You Eaten?
The Next Generation of Social Workers
The Zhou Brothers Plant Roots in Chinatown

Part III: The Expansive 1990s

The Youth Center on Canal Street
Expanding Senior Services
Senior Housing Becomes a Reality
CASL Needs a New Home

Part IV: A New Home in the 2000s

Program Consolidation and Expansion
Multigenerational Services in One Space
CASL’s Impact and Recognition

Part V: New Challenges in the 2020s

Pandemic Response
The End of an Era

Epilogue   Looking Forward

Acknowledgments

Appendix I   Chinese American Service League Board of Directors, 1978–2022

Appendix II   List of Interviews and Written Statements

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2024
Zusatzinfo	36 black & white photographs; 1 map
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-252-08818-2 / 0252088182
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08818-6 / 9780252088186
Zustand	Neuware