Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back

Introduction

WHEN I WALK INTO ANY BUSINESS GATHERING, I AM AWARE that all eyes are on me. I don’t say this to be vain. As a Chinese woman living and working in the financial capital of the world, I know that my presence provokes conversation. People want to know my opinion on China’s economic surge. They are curious about my journey from Shanghai to New York. They often ask if I was raised by a tiger mother and where I stand on the tiger parent controversy. They are endlessly curious about China and the Chinese ways of business and life and what I think of them.

I was born and raised in Shanghai, the commercial and financial center of mainland China. My childhood and adolescence mirrored the rise of capitalist China in the 1980s and 1990s. My ...