Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity Paperback – February 28, 2005 Author: Visit Amazon's Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Ohio State University.
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- Paperback: 282 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press (February 28, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0520245288
- ISBN-13: 978-0520245280
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.1 x 8.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,063,274 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Dr. Wu astounds us by producing a work of biography that does something very rare in this age of standardized academic prose, she has produced an addictively readable volume. To tell the truth, even though I have lived in San Francisco for 25 years, I had never even heard of Mom Chung, but I guess if I lived here during World War II I would have been reading about her exploits every day.
One record after another, she smashed, despite the obvious disapproval of both the Chinese and white communities here. And then there's the gender thing. She adopted, as Dr. Yu shows us, a comically asexual pose, which made it humorous for hundreds of white men and women to call her "Mom," which would have implied that she had had sex when to look at her, and to survey her lack of marriage license, she had none. There's the secret!
The "fair-haired bastards" of the title were the war heroes, at first the pilots, then those who served in the Navy, then a bunch of "Kiwis" who Chung recognized for their work in the field supporting our men overseas. She attracted celebrities to her wherever she went, sort of like our own JT LeRoy in the present day. When she started out, she walked timidly, and it took a cunning and open-hearted woman like the poet Elsa Gidlow to see underneath the brim of her cloche and discover the Lesbian within. Gidlow's memoirs, from which Dr. Wu draws the story, reveal that Gidlow became Chung's patient pretty much to get that old countertransference going. And after a difficult operation, in which Gidlow nearly died, Chung finally admitted that she loved her.
Later on came an intense attachment to the "last of the red hot Mamas," Sophie Tucker.
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