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Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity. By Judy Tzu-Chun Wu. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 282 pp. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-520-24143-6.)
Asian American studies has developed rapidly in recent decades with more and more works broadening the field by exploring aspects, dimensions, or individuals that have not yet been investigated. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu's Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards is a testimony to the growing scholarship.
As a biography, the book chronicles Mom Chung's remarkable life. The story of Mom Chung is extraordinary, and Wu chooses to narrate Chung's life in three parts. Part 1 explores the influence of Christian missionaries on her professional choice. Born into a...