I hate you, and I hate this family!" Chua did not mind her daughters hating her as she constantly reminds them, her job is "to prepare you for the future – not to make you like me". Why can't you get that through your head? I hate the violin. Worse, she openly challenged her mother in public, screaming: "I don't want to be Chinese. She simply refused to obey, a huge crime for Chinese kids. It paid off: I came high enough in the National Exam to get a place at Beijing University, the best in China.īut Chua's Chinese parenting backfired when her younger daughter Lulu cracked under her mother's non-stop pressure. Apart from seven hours' sleep, all my waking moments were consumed by study – I did not even come to the table until my food was lukewarm, so I could gulp it down quickly and get back to work. I remember my own upbringing in the city of Handan, in central China.
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