Lenora Chu on Chinas Education System

Lenora Chu explores what takes place behind closed classroom doors in China s education system. Chus eyeopening investigation challenges assumptions and considers the true value and purpose of education. About the Book In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hardhitting exploration of Chinas widely acclaimed yet insular education systemheld up as a model of academic and behavioral excellencethat raises important questions for the future of American parenting and education. When students in Shanghai rose to the top of international rankings in 2009, Americans feared that they were being outeducated by the rising super power. An American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, Lenora Chu noticed how wellbehaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. How did the Chinese create their academic superachievers Would their little boy benefit from Chi