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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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Book Summary
Traces the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese mother's exercise in extreme parenting, describing the exacting standards applied to grades, music lessons and avoidance of Western cultural practices.
Awards and Recognition
1 week on NPR Paperback Nonfiction Bestseller List
This book is about:
- Chua, Amy,
- Chinese American women,
- Mothers,
- China,
- Mothers and daughters,
- East and West,
- Biography,
- United States
NPR stories about Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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At Home: A Widow's Life, A Tiger Mother's Tale, And A Call For Compassion
Strict, uncompromising values and discipline are what makes children raised by Chinese parents successful. That's the message of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the controversial parenting book by Yale Law professor Amy Chua, which espouses punishingly hard work that yields excellence, which in turn yields satisfaction. The success of this strategy is hard to dispute. Older daughter Sophia is a piano prodigy who played Carnegie Hall when she was 14 or so. The second, more... more
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Tiger Mothers: Raising Children The Chinese Way
January 11, 2011 Amy Chua, a professor of law at Yale, has written her first memoir about raising children the "Chinese way" — with strict rules and expectations. Maureen Corrigan predicts the book will be "a book club and parenting blog phenomenon."
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