Please note that this program takes place off-site at Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005.

In Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve, journalist and parent Lenora Chu offers a rare glimpse inside China’s insular education system and uses her parenting journey to launch a wider investigation into whether its educational methods are something to which the West should aspire. “We’d moved across the Pacific Ocean to escape the American parenting rat race, only to land squarely in the Chinese equivalent,” Chu writes. “I wondered about the contradictions I was sensing: Was the obedience I observed in my son Rainey part of the Chinese secret to academic success? Were Chinese schools pumping out robots as the critics say, or was China’s education system really superior? Although the world seemed to hail China’s march towards global superstardom, are Chinese methods what the West should measure itself against, much less emulate?”

This program is presented in collaboration with Brazos Bookstore. Pre-order Lenora Chu’s book from their website. (http://www.brazosbookstore.com/event/lenora-chu-little-soldiers)

About the Author:
Lenora Chu is an American journalist and writer living in Shanghai, China. Her first book, Little Soldiers: An American Boy, A Chinese School and the Global Race to Achieve, will be published by HarperCollins in September 2017. It tells the story of China’s education system through the perspective of an American mother and journalist.

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