Ching Chongs and Tiger Moms: The 'Asian Invasion' in US Higher
Education  September 27, 2011   by OiYan A. Poon  *crossposted
from Amerasia Journal  Personal memoirs by people who are not
household names rarely set off fiery debate and conversations
the way that Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited
them in January 2011. Yet Tiger Mom’s chronicle of her
experiences as a second-generation Asian American woman raising
mixed-race, third-generation daughters has clearly struck a
national nerve. The book has been discussed in major print and
broadcast media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Time,
Newsweek, NPR, and the New York Times, just to name a few; Chua
has even made an appearance on The Colbert Report on Comedy
Central. The hype generated around the book can be explained by
two key concepts. First, Battle Hymn converges with the master
narrative framing Asians in America as invading foreigners who
maintain their peculiar un-American cultures in the US. Second,
it concomitantly connects