In January, Amy Chua, 49-year-old Chinese-American law professor at Yale University, came out with a book that immediately became a best-seller in the US, as well as all over the world. In "The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," Amy Chua recounts and reflects on how she raised her two daughters in an extremely strict, traditional success-oriented "Chinese" way. The book is a very tongue in cheek, blow by blow account of the successes as well as failures of her attempt to bring her children up with traditional "Chinese" values of hard work in the middle of mainstream America. The book is written with much humor, self irony and wide-reaching reflections. It has caused heated debates on all sides and has caused western and Chinese thinkers all over the world to re-consider their own parenting approaches and values on both a personal as well as global level.
Click here to watch a short interview with Amy Chua.
