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简介：本世纪二三十年代，一群群中国青年男子离开祖居的乡井，到遥远的新加坡挣钱谋生。几十年后，他们在新加坡扎根定居，其中相当一部分人从身无分文的苦力成为在经营上卓有建树的企业家。他们是如何成功的？导致他们成功的内外因素又是什么？企业就经营成功需要具备什么样的能力？中国传统伦理和新加坡的经营环境对他们的成功起了什么样的作用？作者以社会学家的深邃功力对上述问题进行了督独到的分析。

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

October 21, 2015Book Recommendation 好书推荐, Chinese Overseas 海外华人, Chinese Overseas 海外华人, NTU Library News 南大图书馆资讯, WGWL News 本馆资讯Luo Biming

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
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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/