![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many readers believed that Chua was advocating the "superiority" of a particular, very strict, ethnically defined approach to parenting. But instead, it's about a bitter clash of cultures and a fleeting taste of glory." Īn article published under the headline "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" in The Wall Street Journal on January 8, 2011, contained excerpts from her book in which Chua recounts her efforts to give her children what she describes as a traditional, strict "Chinese" Confucian-style upbringing. This was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. The complete blurb of the book reads: "This is a story about a mother and two daughters. It quickly popularized the concept and term " tiger mother". Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is a book by American author and law professor Amy Chua that was published in 2011. ![]()
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