How to be a Chinese mom January 8, 2011

Amy Chua lays it on a little thick in the WSJ. I went to one of her talks at the law school- she was presenting her book Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–and Why They Fall, and helpfully admitted that the title was not the most modest thing she could have picked. After the talk nobody wanted to ask her a question, and Harold Koh, who had introduced her, obliged her with something long.