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Amy Chua: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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Date:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time:
7:30 PM
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9:30 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Ken Preston
Location Details:
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar St
Berkeley
2286 Cedar St
Berkeley
All decent parents want to do what’s best for their children. What “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” reveals is that the Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that. Western parents try to respect their child’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions and providing a nurturing environment. The Chinese believe that the best way to protect children is by preparing them for the future and arming them with skills, strong work habits, and merited inner confidence.
KPFA’s excellent Morning Show host (temporarily laid off) Aimee Allison, also a mother, will introduce Amy Chua, converse with her, and facilitate the question and answer session with the audience.
“Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” is the book we’ve all been waiting for – a candid, provocative, poignant and vicarious journey through the Chinese-American family culture. It will leave you breathless with its bluntness and emotion. Amy Chua is a Tiger Mother, a greatly gifted law professor and, ultimately, an honest, loving woman with a lot to say.” —Tom Brokaw
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 – a New York Times bestseller – was selected by both The Economist and The Guardian as one of the Best Books of 2003. Her second book, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rose To Global Dominance—And Why They Fall was a critically acclaimed Foreign Affairs bestseller. She lives with her husband and two daughters in New Haven, Connecticut.
Hosted by Aimee Allison
$12 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/142984
:: 800-838-3006
or: Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, and Modern Times ($15 door)
Information: http://www.kpfa.org/events
KPFA’s excellent Morning Show host (temporarily laid off) Aimee Allison, also a mother, will introduce Amy Chua, converse with her, and facilitate the question and answer session with the audience.
“Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” is the book we’ve all been waiting for – a candid, provocative, poignant and vicarious journey through the Chinese-American family culture. It will leave you breathless with its bluntness and emotion. Amy Chua is a Tiger Mother, a greatly gifted law professor and, ultimately, an honest, loving woman with a lot to say.” —Tom Brokaw
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 – a New York Times bestseller – was selected by both The Economist and The Guardian as one of the Best Books of 2003. Her second book, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rose To Global Dominance—And Why They Fall was a critically acclaimed Foreign Affairs bestseller. She lives with her husband and two daughters in New Haven, Connecticut.
Hosted by Aimee Allison
$12 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/142984
:: 800-838-3006
or: Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, and Modern Times ($15 door)
Information: http://www.kpfa.org/events
For more information:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/142984
Added to the calendar on Sat, Dec 25, 2010 7:21PM
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Why do you people have the illusion Aimee Allison knows a single thing about Asian families? Is it too much to ask that instead of continuing this embarrassing campaign to restore jobs , you have the decency to have the program hosted by an Asian-American? Maybe even someone associated with KPFA's Asian program, the Asian-Pacific Express?
I know, god forbid, that would mean pretending unpaid staff members are actual people, but really you can do it if you try hard.
How big a joke are you trying to become?
I know, god forbid, that would mean pretending unpaid staff members are actual people, but really you can do it if you try hard.
How big a joke are you trying to become?
To all appearances, this woman is an abusive parent, a race-baiter and a snob. Why give her the platform?
Storm over 'Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior'
By Elizabeth Lesly Stevens|January 10, 2011 4:34 p.m. |
Yale law school professor Amy Chua may have sparked a major cultural moment over the weekend when the Wall Street Journal ran an excerpt from her forthcoming book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," which is being published on Tuesday.
Chua's lengthy WSJ piece, entitled "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," featured her standing, smug and proud, as her two daughters practiced the violin and piano in the background.
Chua defines "Chinese mother" carefully. "I'm using the term 'Chinese mother' loosely," she wrote. "I know some Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Irish and Ghanaian parents who qualify too. Conversely, I know some mothers of Chinese heritage, almost always born in the West, who are not Chinese mothers, by choice or otherwise."
What Chua means by "Chinese mother" is an unrelenting rigor most parents cannot even imagine, let alone enforce. Chua's daughters have never been allowed to have play dates or sleepovers. They practice their instruments three hours each day.
Any grade lower than an "A" is regarded as a failure. Chua writes that she once called her daughter "garbage" for being disrespectful, and proudly recounted the episode at a dinner party of presumably non-Chinese mothers. One guest was so upset she had to go home. Chua, unperturbed, presumably stayed through dessert.
Comments on the WSJ site (more than 2,100 so far) are all over the map:
-- "I guess this explains why China is such an awesome place to live," writes Gregory Henson. "Especially for all of the young girls raised in orphanages after their families abandon them in hopes of having a boy. Are these the 'superior mothers' you are referring to?"
--"it is insulting to Western parents that you assume they are letting their kids become 'losers,' writes Annie Chang, who says she is Chinese. "This article is more about why you believe YOU yourself are superior, rather than Chinese mothers in general."
And so on.
Think what you will about Chua's parenting skills, but as a book promoter, she's a genius.
Storm over 'Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior'
By Elizabeth Lesly Stevens|January 10, 2011 4:34 p.m. |
Yale law school professor Amy Chua may have sparked a major cultural moment over the weekend when the Wall Street Journal ran an excerpt from her forthcoming book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," which is being published on Tuesday.
Chua's lengthy WSJ piece, entitled "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," featured her standing, smug and proud, as her two daughters practiced the violin and piano in the background.
Chua defines "Chinese mother" carefully. "I'm using the term 'Chinese mother' loosely," she wrote. "I know some Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Irish and Ghanaian parents who qualify too. Conversely, I know some mothers of Chinese heritage, almost always born in the West, who are not Chinese mothers, by choice or otherwise."
What Chua means by "Chinese mother" is an unrelenting rigor most parents cannot even imagine, let alone enforce. Chua's daughters have never been allowed to have play dates or sleepovers. They practice their instruments three hours each day.
Any grade lower than an "A" is regarded as a failure. Chua writes that she once called her daughter "garbage" for being disrespectful, and proudly recounted the episode at a dinner party of presumably non-Chinese mothers. One guest was so upset she had to go home. Chua, unperturbed, presumably stayed through dessert.
Comments on the WSJ site (more than 2,100 so far) are all over the map:
-- "I guess this explains why China is such an awesome place to live," writes Gregory Henson. "Especially for all of the young girls raised in orphanages after their families abandon them in hopes of having a boy. Are these the 'superior mothers' you are referring to?"
--"it is insulting to Western parents that you assume they are letting their kids become 'losers,' writes Annie Chang, who says she is Chinese. "This article is more about why you believe YOU yourself are superior, rather than Chinese mothers in general."
And so on.
Think what you will about Chua's parenting skills, but as a book promoter, she's a genius.
Just wondering what her caucasian husband thinks of all this "tiger" parenting. So husbands are to have no input in the parenting? The WSJ article was indeed fascinating...glad I could read it and hear all I want to know. I refuse to pay money for this racist book!
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