Tiger Babies Strike Back by Keltner, Kim Wong -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents Dedication Part 1: Here’s Where the Fun Begins

1: Tiger Babies Strike Back 2: Tiger Mom, I’m Just Not That into You 3: How the Unformed, Chinese American Blob Takes Shape 4: The Defiant Chinese Body 5: Tough Love, Tough Luck 6: Origin of the Tiger Mother Species 7: Rise of the 3.2 GPAs

Part 2: Peek Behind the Curtain

8: A Tale of Two Runts 9: Alpha Females in Separate Cages 10: Show Me to the Foxes 11: The Garden of Perfect Brightness Resides Within You 12: Love, Chinese American Style 13: Grandma Lucy on the Page 14: Misery Is Not a Contest

Part 3: Breaking Out of the Locked Chinese Box

15: My Mom Loves Fiona Ma More Than Me 16: Nothing Is for Free . . . Except Breast Milk 17: Tiger Mom’s Heart Grew Two Sizes That Day 18: Mompetitors, Start Your Engines! 19: Iris Chang It 20: The Wheels Start to Come Loose 21: The Mice Go On 22: Aeon Flux Capacitor

Part 4: Emerging from the Shadows and into the Light

23: Trying to Calm the Inner Hysteria 24: Flap Your Wings 25: Who’s Biting Your Style? 26: Welcome to What I Didn’t Know 27: Dragon Lady Versus Pearl Concubine 28: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Third Grade

Part 5: Older and Wiser

29: Mommy, I Know What the F-Word Is! 30: Dismantling the Lonely Honeycomb of Your Inner Wasp’s Nest 31: Don’t Wash Pinky, Okay? 32: Before You Vanish Out of View 33: Scrambling Past the Dahlias 34: Place Your Hand in the Beast’s Mouth 35: Do My Dreaming and My Scheming, Laugh at Yesterday 36: Bring On the Playdates 37: Friends Don’t Let Friends Be Tiger Moms 38: The Reamer Can’t Hide the Pride 39: Something Rejected Is the Key to Your Heart

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