” Tiger Parents and Whitz Kids: The Chinese American Achievement Paradox”

Lee_Zhou_Cover_

Speaker:  Prof Zhou Min
Nanyang Technological University, Chinese Heritage Centre, Director

Prof Jennifer Lee
University of California, Irvine

Date:           29 January 2016
Time:          3.00pm to 5.00pm
Venue:        NTU, Chinese Heritage Centre, Level 2, Auditorium
12 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637721

Further information about the book.

Save the date! Lee and Zhou’s book, ” The Asian American Achievement Paradox”, is now available for sale.

Booklink Pte Ltd
70 Stamford Road
#B1-30/31/32
Li Ka Shing Library Building
Singapore 178901
Tel: (+65) 9621 6127(+65) 9621 6127, Email: enquiry@booklink.com.sg.

Description of the book:
http://www.russellsage.org/asian-american-achievement-paradox

Email interview by “Inside Higher Ed” by Jacqueline Thomsen:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/08/04/authors-discuss-reasoning-behind-high-levels-asian-american-achievement

The Washington Post
28 August 2015
The Asian American Achievement Paradox.
By Sarah Kaplan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/28/the-self-fulfilling-prophesy-of-stereotyping-asian-american-students/

Quote extracted from Savage Minds:
“Zhou and Lee have done a tremendous amount of science and have a clear body of evidence and a compelling analysis of it…the study has taken on a controversial topic and has done a fine job with it. Anthropologists who want to engage the deep theoretical questions about culture, agency, and inequality that come from studying a politically-charged topic like racial inequality in the US would do well to keep this book and its findings on their radar.”
http://savageminds.org/2015/08/04/book-proves-culture-leads-to-asian-american-success-headlines-claim-opposite/