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发帖数: 223 | 1 Amy Chua may well be nuts. What kind of a mother hauls her then-7-year-old
daughter's dollhouse out to the car and tells the kid that the dollhouse is
going to be donated to the Salvation Army piece by piece if the daughter
doesn't master a difficult piano composition by the next day? What kind of a
mother informs her daughter that she's "garbage"? And what kind of mother
believes, as Chua tells readers she does, that: "an A- is a bad grade; ...
the only activities your children should be permitted to do are those in
which they can eventually win a medal; and ... that medal must be gold"?
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
By Amy Chua
Hardcover, 256 pages
The Penguin Press
List price: $25.95
Read An excerpt
What kind of a mother? Why, a mother who's raising her kids the Chinese,
rather than the Western, way. In her new memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger
Mother, Chua recounts her adventures in Chinese parenting, and — nuts
though she may be — she's also mesmerizing. Chua's voice is that of a
jovial, erudite serial killer — think Hannibal Lecter — who's explaining
how he's going to fillet his next victim, as though it's the most self-
evidently normal behavior. That's the other gripping aspect of Battle Hymn
of the Tiger Mother: There's method to Chua's madness — enough method to
stir up self-doubt in readers who subscribe to more nurturing parenting
styles. Trust me, Battle Hymn is going to be a book club and parenting blog
phenomenon; there will be fevered debate over Chua's tough love strategies,
which include ironclad bans on such Western indulgences as sleepovers, play
dates, and any extracurricular activities except practicing musical
instruments ... which must be the violin or piano.
The back story to Chua's memoir is this: She is the daughter of Chinese
immigrants and is now a professor at Yale Law School and the author of two
best-selling "big-think" books on free-market democracy and the fall of
empires. When Chua married her husband, fellow Yale law professor and
novelist Jed Rubenfeld, they agreed that their children would be raised
Jewish and reared "the Chinese way," in which punishingly hard work —
enforced by parents — yields excellence; excellence, in turn, yields
satisfaction in what Chua calls a "virtuous circle." 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 rebellious
daughter, Lulu, is a gifted violinist. Chua rode the girls hard, making sure
they practiced at least three hours a day even on vacations, when she would
call ahead to arrange access to pianos for Sophia in hotel lobby bars and
basement storage rooms. Chua also rarely refrained from criticizing her
daughters, and in one of the many provocative passages that fill her book,
she explains: | p******u
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Amy L. Chua (simplified Chinese: 蔡美儿; traditional Chinese: 蔡美兒, born
1962 in Champaign, Illinois) is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at
Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke
Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law
associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the
study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic
conflict, and globalization and the law.Amy L. Chua (simplified Chinese: 蔡
美儿; traditional Chinese: 蔡美兒, born 1962 in Champaign, Illinois) is the
John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale
faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School. Prior to starting her
teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb,
Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business
transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and
the law.Amy L. Chua (simplified Chinese: 蔡美儿; traditional Chinese: 蔡美兒
, born 1962 in Champaign, Illinois) is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of
Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching
at Duke Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a
corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She
specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and
development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law.
【在 p******u 的大作中提到】
: chua是tmd中文么
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Amy L. Chua (simplified Chinese: 蔡美儿; traditional Chinese: 蔡美兒, born
1962 in Champaign, Illinois) is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at
Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke
Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law
associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the
study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic
conflict, and globalization and the law.
【在 p******u 的大作中提到】
: chua是tmd中文么
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发帖数: 631 | 5 她老家chua县的，挨着pia县
【在 p******u 的大作中提到】
: chua是tmd中文么
| c****h
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发帖数: 4978 | 7 她好像是个菲律宾华人，她的这个帖子在wsj跟huffingtonpost特火，把美国人都气蒙
了，最初的名字叫Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior。
【在 p******u 的大作中提到】
: chua是tmd中文么
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Amy L. Chua (simplified Chinese: 蔡美儿; traditional Chinese: 蔡美兒, born
1962 in Champaign, Illinois) is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at
Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke
Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law
associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the
study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic
conflict, and globalization and the law.
【在 P*****t 的大作中提到】
: 她好像是个菲律宾华人，她的这个帖子在wsj跟huffingtonpost特火，把美国人都气蒙
: 了，最初的名字叫Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior。
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Chua lives in New Haven, Connecticut and is married to Yale Law School
professor Jed Rubenfeld. She has two daughters, Sophia and Louisa.[11] She
is the eldest of 4 sisters: Michelle, Katrin, and Cynthia. Katrin is a
professor at Stanford University.[12] One sister has Down Syndrome and holds
two International Special Olympics gold medals in swimming.[12]
Duke
【在 g*b 的大作中提到】
: she married a j.. kayaker?
: Amy L. Chua (simplified Chinese: 蔡美儿; traditional Chinese: 蔡美兒, born
: 1962 in Champaign, Illinois) is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at
: Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke
: Law School. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law
: associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the
: study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic
: conflict, and globalization and the law.
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