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Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve

✍ Scribed by Chu, Lenora

Book ID
109768460
Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2017
Tongue
en-US
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780062367877

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✦ Synopsis

New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors' Pick

In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bebe, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system--held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence--that 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 "out-educated" by the rising super power. An American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, Lenora Chu noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. How did the Chinese create their academic super-achievers? Would their little boy benefit from Chinese school?

Chu and her husband decided to enroll three-year-old Rainer...

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