Amy Chua

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Champaign, Illinois, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/AChua.htm

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Politics, History, Parenting & Families

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Amy L. Chua (born 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. 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.

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Books by Amy Chua

Average rating: 3.49 · 14,246 ratings · 3,678 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother 3.48 avg rating — 13,613 ratings — published 2011 — 26 editions	My rating:
	World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability 3.73 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall 3.83 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	A Picture History of Singapore 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995	My rating:
	What the World Is Reading 24-Copy Mixed Ppk Id by NOT A BOOK, Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author), Amy Chua 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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“As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.”
― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

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“There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.”
― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

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“The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.”
― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

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Which book would you like to see as the selection for our Spring 2011 Group Reads category Biography/Autobiography/Memoir?

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

29 votes, 23.8%

My Life in France by Julia Child

28 votes, 23.0%

Life: Keith Richards by Keith Richards

17 votes, 13.9%

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

13 votes, 10.7%

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba

11 votes, 9.0%

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

8 votes, 6.6%

The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves, and Forgotten Histories by Sadia Shepard

6 votes, 4.9%

Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall

4 votes, 3.3%

Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession by Anne Rice

3 votes, 2.5%

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder

3 votes, 2.5%

122 total votes

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