Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Part One
Chapter 1 - The Chinese Mother
Chapter 2 - Sophia
Chapter 3 - Louisa
Chapter 4 - The Chuas
Chapter 5 - On Generational Decline
Chapter 6 - The Virtuous Circle
Chapter 7 - Tiger Luck
Chapter 8 - Lulu’s Instrument
Chapter 9 - The Violin
Chapter 10 - Teeth Marks and Bubbles
Chapter 11 - “The Little White Donkey”
Chapter 12 - The Cadenza
Part Two
Chapter 13 - Coco
Chapter 14 - London, Athens, Barcelona, Bombay
Chapter 15 - Popo
Chapter 16 - The Birthday Card
Chapter 17 - Caravan to Chautauqua
Chapter 18 - The Swimming Hole
Chapter 19 - How You Get to Carnegie Hall
Chapter 20 - How You Get to Carnegie Hall, Part 2
Chapter 21 - The Debut and the Audition
Chapter 22 - Blowout in Budapest
Part Three
Chapter 23 - Pushkin
Chapter 24 - Rebellion
Chapter 25 - Darkness
Chapter 26 - Rebellion, Part 2
Chapter 27 - Katrin
Chapter 28 - The Sack of Rice
Chapter 29 - Despair
Chapter 30 - “Hebrew Melody”
Chapter 31 - Red Square
Chapter 32 - The Symbol
Chapter 33 - Going West
Chapter 34 - The Ending
Coda
Acknowledgements
Notes
About the Author
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Portions of Chapter Four first appeared as “On Becoming American” in Defining a Nation: Our America and the Sources of Its Strength, edited by David Halberstam (National Geographic, 2003).
Photograph credits
Bachrach Photography: page 30
© Susan Bradley Photography: 168
Peter Z. Mahakian: 216, 223
All other photographs from the author’s family collection.
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Chua, Amy.
Battle hymn of the tiger mother / Amy Chua.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN: 9781101479629
1. Chua, Amy. 2. Mothers-United States-Biography. 3. Chinese American women-Biography. 4. Mothers and daughters-China. 5. Mothers and daughters-United States. I. Title.
HQ759.C59 2011
306.874’3092—dc22
[B] 2010029623
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