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When Friends Come From Afar

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

by 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 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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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

    |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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