Shirley Temple was a famous child movie star in the 1930s. Use details from the text to write two or three sentences about the mother’s efforts to make her daughter into a “Chinese Shirley Temple.”
Mother showed old movies as if they were "training films". She told her daughter "to watch Shirley tapping her feet, or singing a sailor song, or pursing her lips...." Mother noted that Jing-Mei didn't need to learn how to cry, and then she took her to a beauty school, where instead of finding herself with a headful of curls, Jing-Mei ended up with a headful of "black fuzz".
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