Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

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A&C Black, Dec 6, 2011 - Family & Relationships - 272 pages
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Contents

The Chinese Mother
3
Sophia
6
Louisa
10
The Chuas
14
On Generational Decline
20
The Virtuous Circle
25
Tiger Luck
30
Lulus Instrument
35
The Swimming Hole
114
How You Get to Carnegie Hall
121
How You Get to Carnegie Hall Part 2
130
The Debut and the Audition
137
Blowout in Budapest
144
Part Three
155
Pushkin
157
Rebellion
167

The Violin
42
Teeth Marks and Bubbles
50
The Little White Donkey
60
The Cadenza
64
Part
75
Coco
77
London Athens Barcelona Bombay
85
Popo
93
The Birthday Card
102
Caravan to Chautauqua
108
Darkness
176
Rebellion Part 2
179
Katrin
185
The Sack of Rice
190
Despair
194
Postscript
231
Love My Tiger Mother
239
Notes
245
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Amy Chua is the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her first book, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, translated into eight languages, was a New York Times bestseller, an Economist Best Book of the Year and one of the Guardian's Top Political Reads of 2003. Her second book, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall, was a critically acclaimed Foreign Affairs bestseller. Amy Chua has appeared frequently on radio and television and her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and the Wilson Quarterly. She lives with her husband, two daughters and two Samoyeds in New Haven, Connecticut.

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