| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2 | The History Cooperative

*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. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, cloth; $21.95 paper.)
Using autobiographical materials and other unpublished papers belonging to Dr. Margaret Chung (1889–1959), correspondence from admirers and friends, and oral histories, and supplementing these with published and archival materials, Judy Wu has done an outstanding job in describing and analyzing the life and times of this unusual woman who is the first known American-born Chinese female physician. Chung was born into a Presbyterian Southern California Chinese American family, attended the University of Southern California medical school from 1907 to 1911, and interned in Chicago, where life among the poor was different.	1
She moved to San Francisco in the 1920s, became the house physician for the Hotel Wilshire, just outside of Chinatown, and opened a small but unsuccessful practice in Chinatown. A year after she opened her office, Dr. James Hall, a graduate of Stanford University's medical school, opened his practice. There apparently was a rivalry, and Hall, as one of the four founding physicians of the Tung Wah Hospital, represented the establishment in launching his criticisms about her training.	. . .

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