Fishville's Notes: The author Amy Chua is an endowed professor of Yale Law School who got her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard.

作者蔡美儿在哈佛获得了她的本科和法学学位，而现在是耶鲁法学院的讲座教授。

For those who have grown up in Chinese-American households, the drive for excellence that Amy Chua describes could provoke strong ambivalence.

对于那些在亚裔美国家庭长大的人来说，蔡美儿所描述的那种追求卓越的努力可能会激起正反两方面的强烈情绪。

I can comfortably say that none of our two kids were raised like the ways Amy Chua has described, sometimes, I would think that our ways seem too liberal.

我可以很肯定地说，我们没有像蔡美儿所描述的那样去抚养我们的两个孩子，有的时候，我倒觉得我们的方式显得过于自由。

AMY CHUA: One of the biggest differences I see between Western and Chinese parents is that Chinese parents assume strength rather than fragility.

蔡美儿：“我认为中西方父母最大的差异之一就是中国父母更强势。”