Law Professor, Tiger Mom, Novelist

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Amy Chua, bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, joins Andrew to talk about tribal dynamics, media narratives, the source of drive, and her new novel — The Golden Gate. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/K_0P-7P4fx8 The Golden Gate - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250903600/thegoldengate Follow Amy Chua: https://amychua.com | https://twitter.com/amychua Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://twitter.com/andrewyang To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on Forward.
0:04.3	What is the first lady of China doing living in Berkeley, California, in the middle of the
0:10.0	Second World War?
0:11.3	So I spun this whole mystery out of that, and the part that was really fun for me that
0:18.7	was more like being a lawyer is the research that went into learning about the history of
0:24.2	the Bay Area during that time.
0:25.8	I wrote that Tiger Mom memoir the first two thirds of it in three months.
0:29.9	It was just supposed to be this fun thing, my younger daughter had rebelled, and honestly,
0:35.4	I just thought it was going to be funny.
0:49.1	It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast, Yale Law Professor, multi-time bestselling
0:55.3	author, public intellectual, and now novelist, author of the brand-new novel, The Golden
1:01.5	Gate, Amy Chua.
1:02.9	Welcome, Amy.
1:03.9	Thank you for having me, Andrew.
1:06.3	Holy cow, Amy, I've admired your work for a long time.
1:09.7	I'm so glad now that we've actually gotten to know each other in person in real life,
1:14.7	which is a very exciting thing.
1:16.7	I know.
1:18.0	Most people, when they hear your name, and I hope this doesn't surprise you at all, they
1:23.0	might think, who is that, who is that, and then they think Tiger Mom.
1:27.7	Yep.
1:28.7	Well, I mean, you have a very multi-pronged legacy, which we'll get into, for sure.
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