![]() ![]() Chua’s almost fanatical belief in the eastern model of rote learning and restricted socialising leads to some fascinating confrontations with her two daughters the dutiful Sophia and the rebellious Lulu. Thus, she invests her own time heavily in her children’s education and goes to extreme lengths to ensure that her children achieve their potential and, more than that, beat all their peers into second place. The Chinese mother, as defined by Chua, demands the best from her children, and believes that they are capable of extraordinary things. ![]() In the book Chua examines the application of Eastern parenting principles in her own life as she attempts to raise her two daughters the ‘Chinese way’. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011) is a parenting memoir written by Amy Chua a Yale Law professor and Chinese-American, who is married to novelist and fellow academic, Jed Rubenfield. ![]()
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