Strange Kindness

When Mabel (Chu Cho-Shin) Tow (1914-1999) one of the first Chinese women to practice medicine in China and the United States shares her story with us we may experience the tender gravity of kindness (the generative transmission of her lineage). That lineage becomes Tow's blend of Taoism Confucianism Buddhism and Christianity. Mabel Tow was a boundary-crosser by being a Christian in China and a Chinese woman in America.<BR /><BR />In this reflective work eight authors share their unique author-reader relationships with Strange Kindness as they dramatize further how Tow crossed the boundaries of gender culture religion language tradition and medical practices. They vividly illustrate Tow's lineage-in-transmission moving all into tikkum olam the poetic act of repairing the world.