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    I'm not surprised at India. I see a lot more highly-educated, high-income East Indians in the States than any other Asian ethnic group, and they even seem to have surpassed immigrants from China in that regard. They're also the most prominent and accepted Asian ethnicity in Hollywood.

    As far as over-emphasis on homework by Asian (particularly among Chinese and Korean) families, IMO it doesn't make them any smarter than anyone else. It's just rote memorization for exams. Oftentimes, people who grew up with far less homework, regimentation and stress actually end up with greater all-around life knowledge, and end up at least as successful and happy in life, if not more so.
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    Billionaire Vicky

    I've just created a new thread dedicated to Vicky Zhao Wei by poaching the posts above from the Tiger Mothers and FOB Moms thread. There are surely other mentions of her on this forum, but I'm not going to link those up right now. I'm also copying this to the Chinese Tycoons, CEOs & Tuhao thread.

    Man, China is going after its starlets. First Fan Bingbing, now Vicky.

    NOVEMBER 20, 2018 / 6:47 AM / UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO
    China bars actress Zhao Wei from holding key positions in companies for five years
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    HONG KONG (Reuters) - Billionaire Chinese actress Zhao Wei and her husband have been barred from taking on key positions at listed companies for five years for violating securities regulations, the Shanghai Stock Exchange said on Tuesday.


    Actress Zhao Wei, member of Venezia 73 International Jury, poses for photographers during a photocall at the 73rd Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

    The exchange’s announcement comes more than a month after another Chinese actress Fan Bingbing came under fire for failing to pay millions of dollars in taxes and fines.

    On Tuesday, the exchange said Zhao and her husband Huang Youlong, as well as several other former executives of Tibet Longwei Culture Media and Zhejiang Sunriver Culture Co Ltd, were unfit to be directors, supervisors and senior executives of listed companies.

    They will not be allowed to assume these positions for five years, the exchange said.

    Zhejiang Sunriver, Tibet Longwei, Zhao and Huang were all not immediately available for comment.

    In late 2016, Tibet Longwei, controlled by Zhao and Huang, made a failed attempt to buy a 29.1 percent stake in Zhejiang Wanjia, which was later taken over by another investor and renamed Zhejiang Sunriver Culture.

    Longwei’s bid had then drawn the scrutiny of the China Securities Regulatory Commission regarding information disclosure and its ability in financing takeovers as there were misleading statements and major omissions in the filings.

    U.S.-China rift divides Asian summit
    In November 2017, China’s securities regulator fined and barred Zhao, who became a household name in China for starring in popular TV dramas, and Huang from trading in the mainland stock market for five years due to the takeover case.

    “Due to the celebrity effect, Tibet Longwei has severely misled the market and its investors. This has seriously disrupted normal market operations and order,” the exchange said on Tuesday.

    Zhao and Fan’s cases have prompted the Chinese government to crack down on celebrity hype.

    In November, state media quoted the National Radio and Television Administration as saying that Chinese broadcasters and online entertainment sites should avoid celebrity hype and crack down on fake audience and click-through rates.

    Reporting by Twinnie Siu in Hong Kong and Lee Chyen Yee in Singapore; editing by Louise Heavens
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    Saskia Wesseling exhibit in Shenzhen

    Tiger mothers, stressed kids and Asia schooling focus of new photo and video show
    Photographer Saskia Wesseling wants her art to make people realise the damage that piling academic pressure on children can do
    Her exhibition is on show in Shenzhen until December 9
    PUBLISHED : Saturday, 01 December, 2018, 6:02pm
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    Hong Kong-based Dutch photographer Saskia Wesseling is on a mission to tame the tiger mum.

    A mother of two girls – Philine, 11 and June, 9 – Wesseling says she was feeling pressured into becoming a tiger mum herself and wanted to use her art to make people reconsider the roles of schooling in society.

    Why self-control is key to preventing youth suicide, experts say
    “I felt trapped,” she says. “My concern is that by the time kids finish university they are exhausted and have lost all the passion and drive that you should have when you leave school and enter the workforce. We are just making anonymous children who are no longer individuals.”

    With mentoring from Taiwanese photographer Chien-Chi Chang, Wesseling created a multimedia exhibition with video and photography.

    Many of the images show children with books over their faces. “This was to show that it was not their choice, that the books were pushed into their face.”

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    Her work is on show in Shenzhen as part of the International Urban Image Festival that runs until December 9. It will then travel to Amsterdam for This Art Fair from December 27 to 30.

    The term “tiger mum” – a mother who pressures her children to attain high levels of academic achievement – was coined by Yale law professor Amy Chua in her 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

    Wesseling says the statistics regarding Hong Kong children are “terrifying”.

    “Some children in primary schools in Hong Kong are given less outdoor time for exercise then prisoners. Fifty per cent of secondary schoolchildren show signs of depression. The school systems in Asia have been consistently referred to as a pressure cooker,” she says.

    “Living with school-aged children in Hong Kong, it is impossible not to be emotionally affected by the stories of suicides in schools.”



    A recent study by the Hong Kong Jockey Club found that an increasing number of Hong Kong students are committing suicide.

    Some 75 Hongkongers aged between 15 and 24 killed themselves in 2016, of which 29 were in full-time education, according to the Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention.
    The US is ahead of PRC for suicide rates right now. According to wiki, US is #34 and PRC is #103. That's overall, mind you, not just students.
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    Tiger Mom

    NOVEMBER 8, 2019 2:41AM PT
    New U.S.-China Co-Production ‘Tiger Mom’ Stars Zhang Jingchu
    By REBECCA DAVIS


    CREDIT: ZHANG JINGCHU

    Impossible Dream Entertainment and sales firm The Exchange have introduced “Tiger Mom,” a U.S.-China co-produced comedy, at the American Film Market. On the China side, backers include Huacheng Film, TV and Digital Program Company, a subsidiary of Chinese state broadcaster CCTV6, and Beijing Origin Pictures.

    The film will star Zhang Jingchu (“Rush Hour 3,” “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation,” “Project Gutenberg”) as a first-generation Chinese-American mother who, unable to control her teenage children, enrolls them in a prestigious disciplinary school called Tiger Academy, which is capable of whipping them into Ivy League shape. The school is run by a woman played by Michelle Krusiec (“Saving Face”), and Lisa Lu (“Crazy Rich Asians,” “The Joy Luck Club”) will also star as the children’s grandmother. Other casting decisions are still in the works.

    The film, currently in pre-production, will be directed by Shawn Chou, who is co-writing with Neil Garguilo. Chou, Stefanie Huang, Shaun Redick and his partner, Yvette Yates Redick, are producing. Liu Changjiang, Samuel Park and Justin Ware will be executive producers.

    “Tiger moms are fierce yet successful, and they demand perfection from their children. This combination can be dramatic and also at times hilarious,” Chou said. “I know this world inside and out because I’m the son of Chinese immigrants, and me and most of my Asian American friends grew up with tiger moms.”

    Impossible Dream Entertainment has developed and produced films such as “Get Out” and “BlacKkKlansman.” Its founder, Redick, said that the new movie will be “a fun comedy with a great message that kids and parents will enjoy together in the U.S., China and the world.”

    Producer Huang said that the production team includes “people from both the U.S. and China, collaborating closely.” She added: “We believe ‘Tiger Mom’s’ story is universal.”

    The Exchange is representing all international rights, including China, but holds North America rights jointly with Impossible Dream. Hillel Elkins of Sklar Kirsh will handle the production’s business and legal affairs. Zhang Jingchu was represented in the deal by ICM Partners and Echelon Talent Management, Lu by the latter, and Krusiec by Global Artists Agency and Thruline Entertainment.
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    Chicken Parents

    Meet China’s ‘chicken parents,’ a new cult of tiger moms on steroids
    Carl Samson
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    A new parenting culture in China that draws its name from a pseudo-medical treatment in the 1960s, in which people were injected with fresh chicken blood to stimulate energy, has taken “tiger parenting” to a whole new level.

    “Jīwá” (“chicken baby”) parents, who start their day thinking about the advancement of their children, are fueling the country’s $120 billion private after-school tutoring industry, which some experts project to hit $155 billion by 2025, according to Reuters.

    In June, China’s Ministry of Education created a new department to regulate the industry, hoping to ease students’ academic burden. This new agency, known as the Department of Off-Campus Education Administration, is responsible for enforcing policies on content, hours, teaching qualifications and the fees of tutoring schools, which run their programs in-person, online or both.

    This unprecedented crackdown on cram schools follows China’s announcement of its new three-child policy, a response to the nation’s falling birth rates. In 2020, Chinese mothers gave birth to just 12 million babies, an 18% decline from 14.65 million in 2019. This is the fourth consecutive drop in annual birth rates, according to the South China Morning Post.

    Authorities fear that jīwá culture discourages couples from having more children. Since raising one child can already be costly, having a third could be financially crippling. Additionally, parents must take into account the physical, mental and emotional stresses that come with having larger families.

    Despite these struggles, jīwá parents — who mostly live in larger cities where most elite schools and universities are based — soldier through. And with the government intervening with regulatory policies, they have only become more rigorous in finding ways to ensure that their kids can keep up.

    “Because of these policies, parents are even more convinced of the potential [risk] for social immobility,” Rainy Li, a jīwá parent to two daughters in Beijing, told NPR. “They are more eager than ever to propel their kids into elite circles and more willing than ever to cut back on their own spending in order to invest in their children.”

    In 2017, families in urban areas like Beijing spent up to 42.2% of their income on private after-school tutoring, according to Xinhua. There is no available data showing just how wealthy jīwá parents are, but it’s safe to say that some spend more than others. There are parents who purchase second homes in certain school districts just to get their children closer to a top education. Still, many come from humble backgrounds and only want to give their kids a good head start in life, NPR noted.

    Whether Chinese kids appreciate their parents’ sacrifices or not is an entirely different story. With so much work to do, many are simply exhausted starting from their preschool days. Kelly Zhou, who heads a private international kindergarten in Shanghai, once called a 4-year-old student’s mother after the child said she had “forgotten how to smile.”

    “I’m able to offer my kid everything,” the mother told Kelly Zhou, according to RADII. “And she’s able to manage all that.”

    The 4-year-old girl reportedly met a private English tutor every Friday, on top of “other academic-related sessions.” Over the weekend, she attended ballet, piano, painting, math and sports lessons. When Kelly Zhou asked what made her life the happiest, she replied: “I’m never happy. I’m tired every day.”

    Another jīwá mother shared her fifth-grade son’s schedule (via SupChina):

    8:30 – 9:50 a.m.: Reading

    9:50 – 10:30: Gaming (for socializing with peers)

    10:30: Eye exercise

    11:00: Lunch while listening to audiobooks

    1:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Math Olympiad practice

    4:00 – 5:30: Biking outdoors

    5:30: Dinner

    5:50 – 8:30: English lessons online

    8:30 – 9:00: Snack break

    9:00 – 10:00: Homework

    10:00: Bedtime

    At first glance, the schedule may look “light” to other jīwá parents, but it is actually the child’s timetable for Saturdays.

    What sets jīwá culture apart from the more universal “tiger parenting” is its uniquely Chinese origin. While some may individually claim to be “tiger moms” or “tiger dads,” jīwá parents identify with each others’ frenzy in dedicated online community groups.

    “The term ‘jīwá’ is common on online parenting chat groups, from kindergarten to high school,” Zhou Ying, whose son entered primary school last year, told Shanghai Daily’s SHINE. “To some parents, it’s never too early to cultivate jīwá.”

    Zhou Ying said he first learned the term from colleagues. He then looked it up on WeChat and found hundreds of accounts dedicated to the culture.

    The process was eye-opening. He recalled one mother who shared her 5-year-old’s daily schedule. “It felt like some kind of simulation game…you know, where you could cultivate a baby into a strong character,” Zhou Ying told SHINE.

    Featured Image via CCTV / South China Morning Post (left), Getty (right)
    Somehow Chicken Parents doesn't translate as well as Tiger Moms
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