Amy Chua
Amy Chua | |
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| Born | 26 October 1962 |
| Alma mater | A.B. Harvard College J.D. Harvard Law School |
| Occupation(s) | The John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School |
| Notable work | 2003 World on Fire 2007 Day of Empire 2011 Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother |
| Spouse | Jed Rubenfeld |
| Children | Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld Louisa Chua-Rubenfeld |
| Parent | Leon Chua |
| Website | Amy Chua Official Website |
Amy L. Chua (traditional Chinese: 蔡美兒; simplified Chinese: 蔡美儿; pinyin: Cài Měi'ér, born October 26, 1962) is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School for 7 years. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. As of January 2011, she is most noted for her parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
Biography
Early life
Chua was born in Champaign, Illinois. Her parents were Chinese Filipinos who are ethnically Chinese from the Philippines and immigrated to the United States. She is of Hoklo ancestry from Fujian and was raised in a Hokkien-speaking, not a Mandarin Chinese-speaking, household.[1] Amy's father, Leon O. Chua, is an Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a writer on nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural networks, and is the discoverer of the memristor.[2] Chua's mother was born in China in 1936, before relocating to the Philippines at the age of 2.[1] She subsequently converted to Catholicism in high school and graduated from the University of Santo Tomas, with a degree in chemical engineering, magna cum laude.[1]
Amy was raised as a Roman Catholic and lived in West Lafayette, Indiana.[3] When she was eight years old, her family moved to Berkeley, California. Chua went to El Cerrito High School and graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College in 1984. She obtained her J.D. cum laude in 1987 from Harvard Law School, where she was an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review.[4]
Books
Chua has written four books: two studies of international affairs, a memoir and her latest on Ethnic-American culture.
Her first book, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (2003), explores the ethnic conflict caused in many societies by disproportionate economic and political influence of "market dominant minorities" and the resulting resentment in the less affluent majority. World on Fire — which was a New York Times Bestseller, selected by The Economist as one of the Best Books of 2003,[5] and named by Tony Giddens in The Guardian as one of the "Top Political Reads of 2003"[6] — examines how globalization and democratization since 1989 have affected the relationship between market dominant minorities and the wider population.
Her second book, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall (2007), examines seven major empires and posits that their success depended on their tolerance of minorities.
Her third book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, published in January 2011, is a memoir that ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting techniques.[7]
Her latest book, The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America, is due to be published in February 2014, though has already attracted commentary because of purported cultural stereotyping.[8][9][10]
Personal life
Chua lives in New Haven, Connecticut and is married to Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld. She has two daughters, Sophia and Louisa ("Lulu").[11] Chua, whose husband is Jewish, has stated that her children can speak Chinese, and they have been "raised Jewish".[12] She is the eldest of four sisters: Michelle, Katrin, and Cynthia. Katrin is a physician and a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.[13] Cynthia, who has Down Syndrome, holds two International Special Olympics gold medals in swimming.[13][14]
Bibliography
- World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. 2002. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385512848
- Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall. 2009. Anchor. ISBN 978-1400077410
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. 2011. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143120582
- The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America. 2014. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1594205460
References
- ^ a b c Chua, Amy (2011). Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Penguin Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-59420-284-1.
- ^ Chua, Leon O. (September 1971). "Memristor - The Missing Circuit Element". IEEE Transactions on Circuits Theory (IEEE) 18 (5): 507–519.
- ^ Maslin, Janet (January 19, 2011). "Amy Chua's 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother' - Review". The New York Times.
- ^ Yale Law School | Faculty | Curriculum Vitae
- ^ "Home entertainment". The Economist. December 4, 2003.
- ^ "Top political reads of the year". The Guardian. London. December 24, 2003.
- ^ Hodson, Heather (January 15, 2011). "Amy Chua: 'I'm going to take all your stuffed animals and burn them!'". The Guardian. London.
- ^ "Tiger Mom's New Book Stirs Up Culture Wars". Yahoo Shine. January 7, 2014.
- ^ "Amy Chua In 'The Triple Package' Claims Jews and Mormons Produce More Successful People". The Huffington Post. January 6, 2014.
- ^ "'Tiger mother' returns with provocative theory of 'cultural group' success". January 8, 2014.
- ^ Chua, Amy (January 8, 2011). "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ I Am Amazed by Amy Chua — Chris Abraham
- ^ a b Hong, Terry (January 9, 2011). "'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,' by Amy Chua". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Special Olympians Come To Berkeley For Summer Games - News Story - KTVU San Francisco
External links
- 1962 births
- American academics
- American female lawyers
- American memoirists
- American political writers
- American Roman Catholics
- American writers of Chinese descent
- American writers of Filipino descent
- Connecticut lawyers
- Development specialists
- Duke University faculty
- Harvard Law School alumni
- International relations scholars
- Living people
- People from Champaign, Illinois
- People from New Haven, Connecticut
- Yale Law School faculty
- Writers from Connecticut
- Writers from Illinois
- 21st-century American writers
- 21st-century women writers