Amy Chua
Amy L. Chua is an American lawyer and author. She is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School for seven years. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen amp Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law and is noted for her parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. In 2011, she was named one of Time magazines 100 most influential people, one of the Atlantic Monthlys Brave Thinkers, and one of Foreign Policys Global Thinkers.
Chua was born in Champaign, Illinois, to ethnic Chinese parents with Hoklo ancestry who emigrated from the Philippines. Her parents raised her speaking Chinese in the Hokkien dialect of Fujian, China. Her father, Leon O. Chua, is an electrical engineering and computer sciences professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His ancestral hometown is Quanzhou, Fujian. Chuas mother was born in China in 1936, before relocating to the Philippines at the age of 2. She subsequently converted to Catholicism in high school and graduated from the University of Santo Tomas, with a degree in chemical engineering, magna cum laude. Chuas parents lived in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation in World War II and were liberated by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his troops.
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