Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards
The Life of a Wartime Celebrity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10027376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Ling (0000-0001-6983-8416, Truman State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1489-1490 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4485999 |
| OpenAlex | W1975535071 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
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 Presbyterian family in Santa Barbara, California, in 1889, Margaret Chung was deeply influenced by the turn-of-the-century women's movement, primarily a missionary enterprise. Many female missionaries firmly believed that women were naturally moral and nurturing and that involvement with the medical profession was a logical expansion of their protective and maternal role. As a child of a Chinese immigrant family, Chung aspired to be a medical missionary in order to save the bodies and souls of her ancestral people. Part 2 examines Chung's efforts to establish a sense of professional and personal belonging. After her graduation from medical school, Chung stayed for a few years in Chicago, where she was exposed to the Progressive reformers. Later, she returned to southern California and established herself as a celebrity physician in the Hollywood area. She finally settled in San Francisco and served primarily non-Chinese and men, although she had aspired to serve people of her own ancestry and gender
Art history · Biography · Genealogy · Immigration · Order (exchange · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Wife · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2012 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |