Amy Chua

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Amy Chua at the 2007 Texas Book Festival

Amy L. Chua ( Chinese  蔡美 兒 , Pinyin Cài Měi'ér , * 1962 in Champaign , Illinois ) is an American university professor , lawyer and publicist . Since 2001 she has taught law at Yale University . A broader public inside and outside the United States, she became known through the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (German: The mother of success ), in which she reports on her personal experiences with an uncompromising "Asian" parenting style . She also wrote the book Day of Empire , in which she hypothesized that political, religious and ethnic tolerance is a necessary condition for societies to rise to become hyperpowers .

Life

Born the eldest of four daughters to a family of Filipino Chinese , Amy Chua grew up in various parts of the United States. Her father, Leon Chua, is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley .

Amy Chua finished her economics -Studies at Harvard in 1984 with honors. Then it acquired in 1987 from the Harvard Law School to JD cum laude ; she was the editor of the Harvard Law Review and an attorney at New York law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton .

She lives in New Haven , Connecticut with her husband, Jed Rubenfeld , who is also a law professor at Yale, and their two daughters . Her sister Katrin is a professor of medicine at Stanford University . Her sister, Cynthia, was born with Down syndrome and won two gold medals in swimming at the Special Olympics .

Works (selection)

  • Day of Empire. How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance and Why They Fall . Anchor, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-4000-7741-0 (English).
  • World on Fire. How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability . Doubleday, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0-385-72186-8 (English).
    • D he world in flames: How can lead democracy to racism and oppression. Translation by Silvia Kinkel. Redline Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 9783868813173 .
  • Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother . 2011. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143120582 (English).
    • The mother of success. How I taught my kids to win . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-312-00470-6 .
  • with Jed Rubenfeld: The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America . Penguin, 2014, ISBN 1-59420-546-9 (English).
    • with Jed Rubenfeld: All people are equal - successful not: The amazing cultural causes of success . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50117-8 .
  • Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations . Penguin, 2018, ISBN 978-0525559047 (English).

Web links

Commons : Amy Chua  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Day of Empire. New York Times Book Review; Retrieved November 23, 2012.
  2. ^ Curriculum Vitae Yale Law School
  3. ↑ a b Terry Hong: 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,' by Amy Chua. In: San Francisco Chronicle. January 9, 2011, accessed January 23, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Details ( Memento from July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Chua, Amy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chua, Amy L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American law scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Champaign (Illinois)