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Amy Chua

Geboren: October 26, 1962 – Champaign, Illinois, United States

Amy Chua is an American legal scholar and author whose work spans law, globalization, ethnic conflict, parenting, and political tribalism. A Yale Law School professor, she is best known for World on Fire, Day of Empire, and the memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, an international bestseller translated widely.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

Amy Chua was born in 1962 in Champaign, Illinois, and spent her early life in a demanding immigrant household that sharpened her sense of discipline and, by her own later account, her feeling of being an outsider. When her father, Leon Chua, became a professor at UC Berkeley, the family moved to California; she went on to graduate from El Cerrito High School, then headed east to Harvard College and Harvard Law School. At Harvard Law she served as an executive editor of the Harvard Law Review, then clerked for Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald and practiced international corporate law at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Her shift into academia in 1994, first at Duke and then at Yale in 2001, became the foundation for both her scholarly and literary careers. ((https://www.amychua.com/about?utm_source=openai))

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"Amy Chua’s memoir is brutally honest, thoughtful, humorous, and authentic"

TIME

"Amy Chua’s tale is as compelling as a good thriller"

Financial Times

"Amy Chua presents a provocative prescription to cure our political ills"

Adam Grant

"Amy Chua’s terrific writing provides the icing"

Lisa See

"Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is entertaining, bracingly honest, and thought-provoking"

The New York Times Book Review

"Amy Chua’s work is provocative, creative, and important"

Barbara Ehrenreich

"Amy Chua ranks with the keenest observers of the contemporary landscape"

David Petraeus

"Amy Chua’s story is far more complicated and interesting than what you’ve heard"

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"Amy Chua deserves our gratitude"

The Washington Post

"Amy Chua speaks hard truths that no one can ignore"

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