Tiger Daughter

choi

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(1) Bill Powell, An American Dad on Raising a Tiger Daughter. Time, Jan 20, 2011.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2043296,00.html
(Abby Cui-Powell)

Note:
(a) Bill Powell. Time
http://china.blogs.time.com/author/billpowell721/
("Bill Powell is a senior writer for TIME in Shanghai. Prior to current his post, he was Chief International correspondent for Fortune based in Beijing and then New York. He also served as Newsweek bureau chief in Moscow, Berlin and Tokyo. Bill is married to Shanghai native Junling Cui. They have one daughter and live in a house they recently purchased in suburban Shanghai")
(b) In the Time article, wife Junling IS Joyce.
(c) mope (vi):
"2: to give oneself up to brooding : become listless or dejected
3: to move slowly or aimlessly"
www.m-w.com
(d) stick figure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_figure


(2) Strictly Come Running. Her memoir is a best seller, but Amy Chua has never felt so misunderstood. Alice van Dyun goes running with the Tiger Mom. Financial Times, Feb 26, 2011 (title in the print).
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/de4f7e76-3eee-11e0-834e-00144feabdc0.html

Quote:

"The girls – who are both accomplished musicians – also spent a lot of time with Amy and her husband, playing Monopoly or table tennis while their parents sipped wine. 'I don’t know why I didn’t put any of that in the book,' she says, with some regret. 'I just strung together the most extreme situations. It proves that I was not trying to write a parenting book!'

"She and her Jewish husband, also a law professor at Yale, are “socially liberal”. It is in this regard that some of her Asian students who have been raised by strict parents have difficulties. 'If they’re coming out of the closet, if they want to be a fashion designer instead of a lawyer, this can create problems,' she says.


Note:
(a) The photo caption online misses the first word of the print edition: "Obedient  Amy Chua runs along the streets of New Haven with dogs Coco and Rush most days.
(b) hair iron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_iron
(or hair tong)
(c) "Did you or did you not burn the stuffed animals?"

This is the questioning style in the courtroom, reserved for a hostitle witness.
(d) I assume Nabokov refers to

Vladimir Nabokov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov
(1899-1977; Russian American novelist and short story writer; Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as among his most important novels and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate word play and synesthetic detail that characterised all his works./ His memoir, Speak, Memory, was listed #8 on the Modern Library nonfiction list)
(e) David Sedaris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sedaris
(born 1956; American humorist, writer, comedian)
(f) Samoyed (dog)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoyed_(dog)

(3) Video--– Husband of “Tiger Mother” Author: Amy Chua is a Terrific Mom. Fox News, Jan 20, 2011.
http://www.foxnewsinsider.com/2011/01/20/video-husband-of-tiger-mother-author-amy-chua-is-a-terrific-mom/

Note: I can not find a transcript; possibly there is none.

※ 修改:．choi 于 Feb 26 16:21:35 修改本文．[FROM: 129.10.0.0]