Amy Chua

Amy L. Chua (Chinese蔡美 儿, Pinyin Měi'ér Cai, born in 1962 in Champaign, Illinois) is an American high school teacher, a lawyer and journalist. Since 2001 she teaches law at Yale University. To a wider audience within and outside the United States, it was by the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ( German: The mother of success ) is known in which she talks about her personal experience with an uncompromising " Asian " parenting style. She also wrote the book Day of Empire, in which she represents the hypothesis that political, religious and ethnic tolerance is a necessary condition for the rise of companies to hyper powers.

Life

Born as the eldest of four daughters of a family of Philippine Chinese grew Amy Chua on in different places in the United States. Her father Leon Chua is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Amy Chua received her economics degree at Harvard in 1984 with honors. Then it acquired in 1987 from the Harvard Law School, JD cum laude; she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a lawyer with the New York law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

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

Works

• Day of Empire. How Hyper Powers Rise to Global Dominance and Why They Fall. Anchor, New York 2002, ISBN 978-1-400-07741-0 (English).
• World on Fire. How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. Anchor, New York 2004, ISBN 978-0-385-72186-8 (English).
• The mother of success. How I taught my kids how to win. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2011 ( Original title: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, translated by Barbara damage), ISBN 978-3-312-00470-6.
• By Jed Rubenfeld: The Triple Package. How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America. Penguin, 2014, ISBN 1594205469th (English)
• By Jed Rubenfeld: All men are equal - not successful: The stunning cultural causes of success. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014 ( Original title: The Triple Package), ISBN 978-3593501178.