Amy Chua
Author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
About the Author
Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School and lectures frequently on the effects of gloabalization to government, business, and academic groups around the world. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Her title Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. show more (Publisher Fact Sheets) Amy Chua was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1962. She received an A.B. in economics from Harvard College in 1984 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1987, where she was an executive editor of the Harvard Law Review. Before becoming a professor at Duke Law School, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton. She is currently the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her first book, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, was selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2003. Her other works include Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance-and Why They Fall and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. In 2014 she had a new book on the New York Times bestseller list, The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 9: New Books to Make Your Heart Race — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Chua, Amy
- Birthdate
- 1962-10-26
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Champaign, Illinois, USA
- Places of residence
- Berkeley, California, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Education
- Harvard University (A.B. ∙ Economics ∙ 1984) (J.D. ∙ 1987)
- Occupations
- professor (Yale Law School)
lawyer
writer - Relationships
- Chua, Leon O. (father)
Rubenfeld, Jed (husband) - Organizations
- Yale University
- Agent
- Tina Bennett
- Short biography
- Amy Chua is the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She lives with her husband, two daughters, and two Samoyeds in New Haven, Connecticut. [from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011)]
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- Works
- 8
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 3,197
- Popularity
- #7,999
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 171
- ISBNs
- 88
- Languages
- 15
- Favorited
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