Her argument there, thoroughly supported by historical, economic, and political evidence from a few key examples of ethnic strife, radically challenged the paradigms of globalization discourse by exploring how class issues articulate to ethnic difference and historical conditions of segregation.Īlas, I can't say that I liked Chua's memoir as a whole, in large part because of the utter lack of evidence she brings to the bold claims about "Chinese" versus "Western" parenting practices and the psychology of child rearing. I think perhaps I will need to take on as a research project an analysis of the dog memoir as a genre-so many books to read! I really wanted to like Chua's memoir because I had read her first book, The World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Doubleday, 2002), and found her analysis of globalization to be fascinating, exploring the effects of free market democracy ideology on local and national contexts around the world.
Those who know me will not be surprised that my favorite parts of Amy Chua's memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (The Penguin Press, 2011) were the chapters about her samoyeds (big poofy white dogs!) Coco and Pushkin.
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