A Chinese Mother's Memoir, Completed by Her Son

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Richard Perkins Hsung who has spent ten years editing and completing Spring Flower, by his mother, Jean Tren-Hwa Perkins, MD joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Mental Health Channels. This three-volume memoir that chronicles her life as an adopted child of American medical missionaries, survivor of China's brutal communist regime, ophthalmologist, immigrant, and mother.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Richard Perkins Hsung discuss the following:

1. What prompted you to compile, edit and ultimately, finish your mother’s memoir?
2. Did working on the memoir give you new insights into your mother that you hadn’t known before, or insights into yourself?
3. Did you gain new insights into the plight of immigrants to the U.S.? How about the way you felt about China?
4. How long did it take you to complete the memoir and what made you decide to make it into a 3 book series?
5. What do you think your mother would have wanted readers to know about her life?
6. Your mother arrived in the US in 1942. What was that like for her?
7. Talk about the role of missionaries in your family’s history. It seems like their involvement in China was far more than just a religious one. Can you talk about that?
8. How has your life changed since you completed Spring Flower?

Richard Perkins Hsung was born in China in 1966 and was one of the first teens to leave China legally after Mao’s Cultural Revolution. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago and became a professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, retiring in 2022. He spent ten years editing and completing Spring Flower (Earnshaw Books) by his mother, Jean Tren-Hwa Perkins, MD. The three-volume memoir chronicles her life as an adopted child of American medical missionaries, survivor of China's brutal communist regime, ophthalmologist, immigrant, and mother. Hsung lives in Madison with his wife, where keeping squirrels from digging up his backyard has become a daily scientific obsession. Learn more at Yangtze River by the Hudson Bay.

Website: https://www.yangtzeriverbythehudsonbay.site/home-page.html

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-perkins-hsung

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