In her first Canadian interview on the topic, author Amy Chua responds to the raging debate over pressure-cooker parenting and ethnicity, ignited by a piece this week in The Wall Street Journal under the headline "Why Chinese Mothers are Superior," an excerpt from her new memoir "Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother." 

This is an extended web-only version of the interview.

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Photo by Peter Z. Mahakian, courtesy of Penguin