![]() Chua appeared on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and on NBC’s “Nightly News” and “Today” show. The excerpt, which had appeared in the Wall Street Journal under the headline “ WHY CHINESE MOTHERS ARE SUPERIOR,” was, and still is, an Internet sensation-as one blogger put it, the “Andromeda Strain of viral memes.” Within days, more than five thousand comments had been posted, and “Tiger Mother” vaulted to No. He had been sent a link to the excerpt by another teacher, who had received it from her sister, who had been e-mailed it by a friend, and, well, you get the point. My twelve-year-old twins had been read an excerpt from the book by their teacher, a well-known provocateur. The other day, I was having dinner with my family when the subject of Amy Chua’s new book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” (Penguin Press $25.95), came up. ![]() As a “Chinese mother,” Amy Chua set rules for her girls: no sleepovers, no playdates, no grade lower than an A on a report card. ![]()
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