内容简介

　　2011年，耶鲁大学华裔法学教授蔡美儿的《虎妈战歌》一书，在中国掀起了滔天巨浪，在美国也是饱受争议和质疑，书中讲述了作者严格得甚至有些“变态”的育儿方法，即便在信奉“棍棒底下出天才”的中国，家长们也觉得难以接受。虎妈一词也因此流行开来，成为严格管教的父母的代称。

　　时隔十年，虎妈的新战歌——《向上流动》把小家庭故事放大到整体的“优秀精英族群”的层面，以详实的统计数据，深刻的调研分析，总结了那些生下来并没拿到一手好牌，却在长大成人后突破出身，成功向上流动的族群之所以成功的家庭教养“三要素”。

　　美国人口普查局的调查证实，470万亚洲移民家庭的收入呈稳步上升趋势，而年轻一代的增长更是呈逐年递增之势。这与他们的学术和社会地位上的攀升是一致的。想当年，这些亚裔背井离乡，从千里之外跑到美国，身无分文且不通晓当地语言，却能在一两代之内就在中上产阶层站稳脚跟。那么，究竟是什么因素，带来了向上流动的可能性呢？

　　就像我们现在常说的精约教育模式，它强调严格的制度和纪律，主张砥砺品格，磨练意志，而虎妈把她总结出来的家庭教育模式称为“三要素”文化，以这三要素去教育培养孩子，则无论出身，无论环境，无论原生家庭的条件，都具有向上流动的可能性。这三要素包括：优越感(superiority)、不安全感(insecurity)和克制力(impulse control)。

　　在这三要素的的配合下，父母和孩子通常都能得到动力，驱动他们获得成功：不是靠运气或关系，而是靠努力工作。当你在生活中正确地理解和运用这三要素时，你就不再受任何特定的成功定义的约束，向上的流动性依然存在，而且生机勃勃。

　　作者简介

　　蔡美儿(Amy Chua)

　　即美国知名华人“虎妈”，现任耶鲁大学法学院终身教授、华裔学者。1987年毕业于哈佛大学法学院，获博士学位，曾供职于华尔街律师事务所，并曾在杜克大学、哥伦比亚大学、纽约大学及斯坦福大学任教。2011年曾入围《时代》（Time）周刊评选的全球最有影响力100人。

　　她已经出版过3部作品。第一本书是《起火的世界：自由市场民主与种族仇恨、全球动荡》(World on Fire:How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability)，该书迅速成为《纽约时报》畅销书，并被《经济学家》（The Economist）评为2003年最佳图书之一。第二本是《帝国的终结:从大历史的角度解读美国霸权兴衰的历程》(Day of Empire:How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall)。蔡美儿在书中称，历史上的超级强国，包括罗马、中国唐朝和大英帝国，是透过他们不同寻常的多元化和宽容来获取优势的；但是这种多元化也蕴含了它们衰败的种子。

　　第三本是最有影响力、最具争议的《虎妈战歌》(Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother)。“虎妈”的教育方法轰动了美国教育界，并引起美国关于中美教育方法的大讨论，“虎妈”的故事最终登上了《时代》周刊封面。现任耶鲁大学法学院教授，是宪法、隐私权与美国宪法第一修正案方面的专家。

　　杰德·鲁本菲尔德

　　1990年开始在耶鲁任教，1994年获得正教授资格。鲁本菲尔德还被斯坦福大学法学院和杜克大学法学院聘为客座教授，著有小说《谋杀的解析》(The Interpretation of Murder)和《死亡本能》(The Death Instinct)。

Content introduction

In 2011, the book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua, a Chinese law professor at Yale University, set off a huge wave in China, and was also controversial and questioned in the United States. The book describes the author's strict and even some "abnormal" parenting methods, even in China, which believes in "genius under the stick", parents find it difficult to accept. The term tiger mother became popular as a term for strict parents.

Ten years later, Tiger Mother's new battle song - "Upward mobility" magnifies the small family story to the level of the overall "elite elite group", with detailed statistics, profound research and analysis, and summarizes the "three elements" of successful family rearing for those who were born and did not get a good hand, but broke through their birth and succeeded in upward mobility after growing up.

The Census Bureau's survey confirms that the incomes of 4.7 million Asian immigrant families are steadily rising, and the growth of the younger generation is increasing year by year. This coincides with their rise in academic and social status. Back then, these Asians left their homes and traveled thousands of miles to the United States with no money and no knowledge of the local language, but were able to establish themselves in the upper middle class within a generation or two. So what is it that makes upward mobility possible?

Just like the refined education model we often say now, it emphasizes strict system and discipline, advocates tempering character and honing will, and the tiger mother called the family education model she summed up the "three elements" culture, with these three elements to educate and cultivate children, regardless of birth, regardless of the environment, regardless of the conditions of the original family, there is the possibility of upward mobility. These three elements are superiority, insecurity and impulse control.

With the combination of these three elements, both parents and children are often motivated to succeed: not by luck or connections, but by hard work. When you properly understand and apply these three elements in your life, you are no longer bound by any particular definition of success, and upward mobility is alive and well.

About the author

Amy Chua

She is a well-known Chinese "tiger mother" in the United States, and is currently a tenured professor and Chinese scholar at Yale Law School. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Harvard Law School in 1987 and has worked for a Wall Street law firm and taught at Duke University, Columbia University, New York University and Stanford University. In 2011, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.

She has published three books. The first book is A World on Fire: World on Fire:How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, World on Fire:How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability The book quickly became a New York Times bestseller and was named one of the best books of 2003 by The Economist. The second book is "Day of Empire:How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall". In her book, Chua argues that historical superpowers, including Rome, the Tang Dynasty in China and the British Empire, gained advantage through their unusual diversity and tolerance; But this diversification also contains the seeds of their downfall.

the third book is the most influential and controversial, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." The educational method of "Tiger Mother" caused a stir in the American education circle, and caused a great discussion in the United States about the educational methods of China and the United States. The story of "Tiger Mother" finally appeared on the cover of Time magazine. He is a professor at Yale Law School and an expert on constitutional law, privacy, and the First Amendment.

Jed Rubenfeld

He began teaching at Yale in 1990 and received full professorship in 1994. Rubenfeld, who is also a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and Duke Law School, is The author of The novels "The Interpretation of Murder" and "The Death Instinct."