For these children, having a tiger mum is good fortune indeed.
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"My mum was a proper Tiger Mum," he says explaining the term: a strict mum who pushes her children to succeed academically, based on the Amy Chua memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
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She expressed hopes she could ease the pressures of Hong Kong's pressure cooker school system, saying parents should let their children "dream" - and acknowledging that was not a traditional Asian "Tiger Mum" thing to say.
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Chinese gamers who accessed them there made titles such as "The Scrolls of Taiwu", a martial-arts fantasy, and "Chinese Parents" (in which the player is the child of a tiger mum trying to balance parents' educational expectations with mental health) into strong sellers.
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MediaCorp Channel 8's television series Tiger Mum is a family drama series produced by MediaCorp Singapore in 2015. It revolves around a senior prison officer whose nickname is ‘Tigress’ due to her stern tiger mother behaviour and demeanour. As of 6 May 2015, all 20 episodes of Tiger Mum have been aired on MediaCorp Channel 8. In addition, during the credits at the end of each episode, scenes of the show were available for viewing on Toggle as epilogues.
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Tiger Mum (Chinese: 虎妈来了) is a Singaporean family drama produced and telecast on MediaCorp Channel 8. The drama began production in November 2014. The series made is run from 9 April to 6 May 2015. The show aired at 9pm on weekdays and had a repeat telecast at 8am the following day.
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Huang's performances in her recent drama serials, Three Wishes and Tiger Mum, garnered favourable responses from viewers. Both dramas had the highest viewership count for 2014. As a freelance actress without an artiste management contract with the TV station, Huang has been disqualified from contesting in the annual Star Awards in recent years. This has drawn much controversy from the public.
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In 2016, Loo was given a role in The Dream Job, acting as Rebecca Lim's physically disabled younger sister. Her performance in Tiger Mum as Chen Huiyan earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination in the Star Awards 2016. Bonnie reprised her role as Yang Hongxi in C.L.I.F. 4 in 2016. She also took part in Hero and "Soul Reaper" in 2016.
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is a book by American author and law professor Amy Chua that was published in 2011. It quickly popularized the concept and term "tiger mother" while also becoming the inspiration for the 2014–2015 Singaporean TV show Tiger Mum, the 2015 mainland Chinese drama Tiger Mom, and the 2017 Hong Kong series Tiger Mom Blues.
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The concert traced the evolution of Singapore Mandarin music. She was nominated in the Star Awards 2016 for the Best Theme Song for "未知数" in "Tiger Mum". Subsequently, Loo was nominated for Best Theme Song in the Star Awards in 2016, with "未知数". She also released a cover of Korean song "Banmal Song" and a music video of "守护你" and "等一等爱情", from Drama Hero.
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The series is sponsored by the Media Development Authority of Singapore. With the show's viewership constantly breaking the 1 million mark, and its finale attracting more than 1.06 million viewers, Tiger Mum has been named the Top Rated Drama of Year 2015 at the recently held Star Awards 2016. This is the second consecutive time a drama starring Huang Biren (after Three Wishes in 2014) has managed to take the top viewership spot.
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The Star Awards for Best Drama Serial was an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994. The category was introduced in 2000, at the 7th Star Awards ceremony; The Legendary Swordsman received the award and it is given in honour of a Mediacorp drama serial which has the highest overall viewership. Since its inception, the award has been given to 14 drama serials. Tiger Mum was the most recent winner in this category.
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In 2015, she was cast in supporting roles for Mediacorp's Channel 8 dramas 虎妈来了 (Tiger Mum)), that garnered the highest viewership rate in 2016, and 信约：我们的家园 (The Journey: Our Homeland). The year also marked the beginning of her lead role as Diana Tong on Tanglin, Singapore's first long-form drama television series on free-to-air broadcast. Jae also appeared on the September cover of Singapore FHM magazine, marking its final issue.
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In 2009, 13-year-old Zong made his television debut in a local Chinese drama 《 书包太重 》also known as ‘My School Daze’. Since then, the Singapore-based Chinese Artiste was part of various TV productions including Star Awards 2016 Top-Rated Drama series “Tiger Mum”. Zong was nominated for the Star Awards for Best Newcomer in 2018 with his work While We Are Young playing a lead role. In 2014, Zong joined Dasmond Koh's company, Noontalk Media to support his career.
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He and Aileen Tan (who won "Best Supporting Actress") were the only two MediaCorp artistes to clinch ATA awards in 2013. In 2015, Xu is involved in more dramas like Crescendo, Sealed with a Kiss, The Journey: Our Homeland , Tiger Mum & Life Is Beautiful has wrapped up a long form drama, Life - Fear Not. In Star Awards 2016, Xu gained his first award called Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes. In 2017, Xu has been involved in a few dramas which are Have a Little Faith & Mightiest Mother-in-Law.
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In fact, her three daughters almost never watch TV. When they were younger, they were banned from switching on the goggle box - "not even for cartoons", says Shanisse - and the rare times that they did get to watch TV, they tuned in to documentaries. Ms Tan, a self-professed tiger mum, says in Mandarin: "I was strict about that because I wanted them to watch only really good, educational programmes. "To them, I'm just their mother, not any sort of celebrity mum. So when people recognised me on the streets and called out my name, they used to be very puzzled and asked if those strangers were my friends.
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The rise of Amy Chua's memoir brought the tiger parent phenomenon into the American mainstream during the 2010s. The tiger parent is a neostereotype of modern Chinese society, as well as in overseas Chinese communities around the world. Chua's rise to fame quickly popularized the concept and term "tiger parent" spawning numerous caricatures while also becoming the inspiration for the 2014–2015 Singaporean TV show Tiger Mum, the 2015 mainland Chinese drama Tiger Mom, and the 2017 Hong Kong series Tiger Mom Blues. The stereotype is a Chinese mother who relentlessly drives her child to study hard, without regard for the child's social and emotional development.
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She will then play the titular character in 2015 drama Tiger Mum, a disciplinarian figure who gels the family together. Audience response to Huang's comeback has been largely favourable, with the viewership of her comeback drama Three Wishes breaking the 1 million mark on its debut episode, a phenomenon rarely seen for local dramas. The captivating storyline, coupled with audience strong anticipation towards Huang's return, were cited as contributory factors towards the drama's strong showing. The finale episode attracted more than 1.1 million viewers, with ratings peaking at a record- breaking high of 1,134,000 viewers – propelling the drama to clinch Top Rated Drama for Year 2014.
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On 30 December 2014, it was revealed that she will star alongside Zoe Tay, Rui En, Jeanette Aw, Li Nanxing and Qi Yuwu in MediaCorp Channel 8's 2015 year-end mega blockbuster series, The Dream Makers II. The serial would be her first collaboration with Tay in 27 years. Both of Huang's 2015 drama serials, Tiger Mum and The Dream Makers ll clinched the Top Rated Drama and Best Drama Serial awards respectively at the Star Awards 2016 ceremony held on 24 April 2016. Huang left MediaCorp on 30 June 2008 but returned to the entertainment industry in 2014 and continues to take on television projects on an ad hoc basis.
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In November 2013, Loo announced that she would be starring in Singaporean television series C.L.I.F. 3 as Yang Hongxi, the daughter of Terence Cao's role, and would be part of a Chinese New Year compilation album in a song together with Julie Tan, Jayley Woo, Ian Fang and Shane Pow in 2014. Bonnie Loo announced that she would be starring in a drama entitled Against The Tide in March 2014. In an article by The Straits Times in October 2014, she was labelled as one of the four rising female artistes to look out for in the local entertainment scene. On 2 November 2014, Loo performed for President Star Charity 2014 in a dance segment as part of a challenge between artistes of different genders. In 2015, Bonnie starred the drama Second Chance 流氓律师 and then went on to star in the drama entitled Tiger Mum.
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