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Nowadays, it’s obvious that family education is one important part of education system. The book of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother tells of the story of a Chinese mother with her two daughters. The author, named Amy Chua, is the second-generation of Chinese immigrants. She educates her two daughters in the way as most Chinese parents do, with high expectation and strict upbringing. In this book, she confesses her own upbringing mentality of two daughters and the process of “battle of wits”. Under the tiger mother’s strict discipline, her two daughters has inherited the excellent Chinese traditions.
Tiger mother’s story has become a recent focus of public discourses. The tiger mother’s harsh parental practices derived from her so-called Chinese

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