Amy Chua

Updated with a new postscript by Amy Chua and a letter from her eldest daughter, Sophia Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. It was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it's about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how you can be humbled by a thirteen-year-old. Witty, entertaining and provocative, this is a unique and important book that will transform your perspective of parenting forever.

SHORTLISTED FOR MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA BEST FIRST NOVEL EDGAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION ILP JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2024SHORTLISED FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARDS BEST FIRST NOVEL 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION DEBUT CROWN 2024An epic, devastating, majestic mystery. Clever, richly imagined and outright thrilling Chris WhitakerBerkeley, California 1944: A former presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms at the opulent Claremont Hotel. A rich industrialist, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of adversaries. But Detective Al Sullivans investigation brings up the spectre of another tragedy at the Claremont ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the wealthy and influential Bainbridge family. Some say she haunts the Claremont still.The many threads of the case keep leading Sullivan back to the three remaining Bainbridge heiresses, now adults: Iriss sister, Isabella, and her cousins Cassie and Nicole. Determined not to let anything distract him from the truth - not the powerful influence of Bainbridges grandmother, or the political aspirations of Berkeleys district attorney, or the interest of Chinese first lady Madame Chiang Kai-Shek - Sullivan follows his investigation to its devastating conclusion.Chuas page-turning debut brings to life a historical era rife with turbulent social forces and ground-breaking forensic advances, when access to power, and therefore justice, hinged on gender, race and class.RivetingDaily MailIntriguingSunday TimesVividly intoxicating Janice Hallett

A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what Chinese parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I've done it... Amy Chua's daughters, Sophia and Louisa (Lulu) were polite, interesting and helpful, they were two years ahead of their classmates in maths and had exceptional musical abilities. But Sophia and Lulu were never allowed to attend a sleepover, be in a school play, choose their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, and not be the #1 student in every subject (except gym and drama). And they had to practice their instruments for hours every day, as well as in school breaks and on family holidays. The Chinese-parenting model certainly seemed to produce results. But what happens when you do not tolerate disobedience and are confronted by a screaming child who would sooner freeze outside in the cold than be forced to play the piano? In Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua relates her experiences raising her children the 'Chinese way', and how dutiful, patient Sophia flourished under the regime and how tenacious, hot-tempered Lulu rebelled. It is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. It's also about Mozart and Mendelssohn, the piano and the violin, and how they made it to Carnegie Hall. It was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it's about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how you can be humbled by a thirteen-year-old. Witty, entertaining and provocative, this is a unique and important book that will transform your perspective of parenting forever.

L´himne de batalla d´una mare que ha educat les seves filles en la disciplina oriental en plena societat occidental.

Chua's analysis uncovers a fascinating historical pattern: while policies of tolerance and assimilation toward conquered peoples are essential for an empire to succeed, the multicultural society that results introduces new tensions and instabilities, threatening to pull the empire apart from within. El analisis de Chua nos descubre un fascinante patron historico: mientras las politicas de tolerancia y de aceptacion hacia los pueblos conquistados resultan esenciales para que un imperio sobreviva, la sociedad multicultural que resulta origina nuevas tensiones e inestabilidades, que acaban amenazando con destruir ese imperio desmembrandolo desde dentro.

In WORLD ON FIRE, Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, grapples with the myth that free markets work to spread wealth, instead arguing that they serve only to define and bolster the monied classes. Examining economic and political conditions in Africa, Asia, and South America, Chua examines how this distribution of wealth inflames lines of conflict within countries and across the globe.

Tras la caída del muro de Berlín, fue tomando forma de la idea de que la magnífica combinación de democracia y libertad de mercado harían del mundo una comunidad de naciones modernizadas, que dejarían atras los odios etnicos y la inestabilidad. Amy Chua demuestra en El mundo en llamas que se ha producido justo el efecto opuesto, el tiempo que previene de los peligros de pretender el establecimiento de una democracia de libre mercado al estilo occidental en paises en vias en desarrollo. El profundo examen del impacto de la globalizacion en el mundo, del que la autora aporta numerosos ejemplos, desde Africa y Asia hasta Rusia e Hispanoamerica, desvela una inesperada realidad.

Bestseller InternacionalEn un momento de creciente preocupación por el futuro de nuestros hijos, Amy Chua siembra la polémica con este sorprendente testimonio que cuestiona la permisividad y la escasa exigencia del modelo educativo occidental y defiende en su lugar la estricta educacion del metodo chino, que a lo largo de generaciones ha producido talentos excepcionales en diversos campos como la musica o las ciencias.Madre tigre, hijos leoneses el relato intimo, ingenioso y provocador de esta madre tigre que decide educar a sus hijas en la excelencia y la disciplina siguiendo el inflexible metodo chino, frente a las miradas de incomprension de su entorno occidental. No dormir fuera de casa, sacar siempre sobresalientes en la escuela o ensayar al menos dos horas diarias de piano o violin seran algunas de las normas que Sophia y Lululas hijas de la autoradeberan seguir para alcanzar el exito y la perfeccion a toda costa; pero tambien se convertiran en el detonante de encarnizados enfrentamientos con su madre que pondran al descubierto un profundo choque entre culturas.Una controvertida confesion que revela, en el fondo, el amor de una madre por sus hijas y su determinacion por sacar lo mejor de ellas a cualquier precio, a la vez que su esfuerzo por mantener vivo un legado cultural cuyos resultados nos invitan a replantearnos nuestro actual modelo pedagogico