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Podcast: Coffee with the Dog
Episode: A Chinese Mother's Memoir, Completed by Her Son EP831
Description: Hour 2:Chinese-American experience, as relayed by a mother, then her son. A baby is born to a dirt-poor family that doesn't want her... a family is torn apart by Mao’s Communism and stuck in two worlds ... a mother fights for U.S. citizenship as she pursues a career ... her son completes her epic memoir after her death.Big idea: Jean Tren-Hwa Perkins was born unwanted during the 1931 Yangtze River Flood, adopted by medical missionaries, brought to the US for a few years, then trapped in Communist China. She was neither American nor Chinese "enough," yearning for acceptance and ho...