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Abstract Parents in many cultures invest significant proportions of household incomes in the so‐called shadow education system of private supplementary tutoring. Parts of the literature attribute intensive tutoring to East Asian cultural traditions and to so‐called tiger parenting. Based on a mixed‐methods study in Shanghai, this article examines tiger parenting through a socio‐economic lens to show the roles of shadow education in achieving parental goals. The study shows that tiger parenting...

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