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Amy Chua From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Amy Chua Born (1962-10-26) 26 October 1962 (age?51)Champaign, Illinois, United States Alma?mater A.B. Harvard CollegeJ.D. Harvard Law School Occupation The John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School Notable work(s) 2003 World on Fire2007 Day of Empire2011 Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Spouse(s) Jed Rubenfeld Children Sophia Chua-RubenfeldLouisa Chua-Rubenfeld Parents Leon Chua Website Amy Chua Official Website Amy L. Chua (traditional Chinese: 蔡美兒; simplified Chinese: 蔡美儿; pinyin: Cài Měiér, born October 26, 1962) 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. Prior to starting her teaching career, she was a corporate law associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen Hamilton. She specializes in the study of international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. As of January 2011, she is most noted for her parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Contents ?[hide]? 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Books 1.3 Personal life 2 Bibliography 3 References 4 External links Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Chua was born in Champaign, Illinois. Her parents were ethnic Chinese from the Philippines who emigrated to the United States. She has Hoklo ancestry and was raised in a Hokkien-speaking, not a Mandarin Chinese-speaking household.[1] Her ancestors (including her grandparents and her mother) were born in Southern Chinas Fujian province.[1] Amys father, Leon O. Chua, is an Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and is known as a leading authority on nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural networks, and as the discoverer of the memristor.[2] Chuas mother was born in China in 1936, before relocating to the Philippines at the age of 2.[1] She subsequently converted to Catholi