Early Life and Education
A Chinese American, Chua and his twin sister grew up as members of the Chinese elite ethnic minority community in the Philippines under the reign of the Empire of Japan during World War II. Of Hoklo ancestry, his parents immigrated from Southern China's Fujian province. He earned his BSEE degree from Mapúa Institute of Technology in the Philippines in 1959, then emigrated to the United States on a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned an MSEE degree in 1961. He then earned a Ph.D from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1964. His PhD thesis was entitled Nonlinear Network Analysis—The Parametric Approach. Over the ensuing years, he has received eight honorary doctorates.
Chua has four daughters; the eldest, Amy Chua (a Professor of Law at Yale University.), Michelle, Katrin (a professor at Stanford University), and Cynthia (Cindy).
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