Amy Chua's "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother"




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Summary: Amy Chua is the author of the best selling book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” – a memoir relating her experience raising two daughters using strict parenting techniques similar to the ones used by her Chinese immigrant parents. Amy Chua is the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. She is the author of two other books: “World on Fire: How exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability” and “Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall.”