| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu. Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. 282. Cloth $55.00, paper $21.95.
This is a superb study of the life of a remarkable person, Margaret Chung, who was the first female professor and chair of obstetrics in a coeducational medical school and the first woman ever to give a paper at the International Congress of Medicine. She was also one of the first Chinese American women to rise to prominence, socially and politically, in mainstream America. Thanks to recent scholarship, we now know a great deal about the history of Chinese Americans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. But past historical studies tend to seek to capture the collective profiles of Chinese Americans. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu's biographical study, therefore, marks a welcome contribution to Chinese American history.	1
The relative lack of in-depth profiles of individual Chinese Americans is largely attributable to the dearth of historical sources. Wu has made an enormously fruitful effort in uncovering and gathering data from a wide range of sources, such as government and nongovernment agencies, archives, and private collection across the nations as well as a long list of oral interviews, many of which were conducted by the author herself. Based on such rich and diverse data, Wu's book not only gives us a fascinating and detailed account of Chung's life story but also uncovers critical aspects of her family history. More important, it constitutes an important social and political history, offering important perspectives through which to understand vital issues such as race, gender, and Americanization during the first half of the twentieth century.	. . .

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