Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Plot Summary

Introduction

In a sunny practice room at the Neighborhood Music School, a young girl sits reluctantly at the piano, her small fingers poised above the keys. Across from her stands her mother, arms crossed, eyes intense with expectation. "Again," she says firmly as the girl finishes a piece with a minor mistake. "And this time, with feeling." This scene, repeated countless times in the Chua household, captures the essence of Amy Chua's approach to parenting - demanding, uncompromising, and driven by a fierce belief in her children's potential for excellence. Amy Chua, a Yale Law professor and first-generation Chinese-American, shocked and fascinated the Western world with her unapologetic defense of what she termed "Chinese parenting." Her journey reveals the complex interplay between cultural values and personal ambition, between traditional methods and modern contexts. Through her story, we witness not just a mother's relentless pursuit of excellence for her daughters, but also a profound exploration of cultural identity, family dynamics, and the true meaning of success. As we follow her transformation from an unbending Tiger Mother to a more nuanced parent, we gain insight into the costs and rewards of demanding perfection, the tensions between Eastern and Western approaches to child-rearing, and ultimately, the universal challenge of preparing children for a competitive world while preserving their spirit and joy.

Chapter 1: The Chinese Way: Foundations of Tiger Parenting

Amy Chua's approach to parenting her two daughters, Sophia and Lulu, was rooted in a distinctly Chinese philosophy that stood in stark contrast to mainstream Western methods. Unlike Western parents who often prioritized self-esteem and individual choice, Chua operated from a fundamentally different set of assumptions. In the Chinese tradition she embraced, children were viewed not as fragile beings needing constant affirmation, but as strong individuals capable of meeting high expectations. When her daughters brought home anything less than an A, Chua did not offer consolation but demanded explanation and improvement. When they struggled with musical pieces on the piano or violin, she did not allow them to give up but insisted on hours of rigorous practice until mastery was achieved. The foundations of this parenting style trace back to Chua's own upbringing as the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her parents had arrived in America with almost nothing, working tirelessly to build new lives while maintaining strict expectations for their children. They demanded perfect grades, prohibited sleepovers and dating, and required unwavering respect for elders and authority. These methods were not seen as harsh but as expressions of love and commitment to their children's futures. As Chua explained, "Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything... the understanding is that Chinese children must spend their lives repaying their parents by obeying them and making them proud." This approach extended beyond academics to activities like music, which became a central battleground in the Chua household. While Western parents might be satisfied with thirty minutes of daily piano practice, Chua considered this merely a warm-up. Three-hour practice sessions were common, with no water breaks or bathroom visits until perfection was achieved. Birthday cards deemed insufficiently thoughtful were rejected and returned for improvement. Television, video games, and school plays were strictly forbidden as distractions from more meaningful pursuits. Underlying these methods was a profound belief in the child's potential and resilience. Where Western parents might worry about damaging a child's self-esteem, Chua believed that true self-esteem came from genuine accomplishment. "What Chinese parents understand," she argued, "is that nothing is fun until you're good at it." This created what she called a "virtuous circle" - hard work led to excellence, which brought recognition and satisfaction, which in turn motivated more hard work. The Chinese approach also differed in its view of the parent-child relationship. While Western parenting increasingly treated children as equals with valid preferences and opinions, Chua's model maintained a clear hierarchy. Parents, with their greater wisdom and experience, not only had the right but the responsibility to make decisions for their children, even against their wishes. This extended to choosing their activities, managing their time, and demanding their obedience. The assumption was not that parents owned their children, but that they knew best how to guide them toward a successful future. Despite its intensity, this approach was fundamentally rooted in love and dedication. Chua spent countless hours alongside her daughters, drilling them on multiplication tables, supervising their music practice, and pushing them toward excellence. Unlike permissive parenting that might seem easier in the moment, Chinese parenting as Chua practiced it required tremendous sacrifice, energy, and unwavering commitment. It was parenting as the most important project of life itself.

Chapter 2: Setting the Bar High: Excellence Through Discipline

When Sophia, Amy Chua's eldest daughter, was just three years old, she was already learning basic set theory and reading Sartre—or at least recognizing the words "No Exit," as her father Jed would later clarify with characteristic humor. By age seven, Sophia could play complex piano pieces that most adults would struggle with after years of practice. These weren't natural prodigies emerging spontaneously; they were the products of a deliberate system of expectations, discipline, and unwavering standards that defined Chua's approach to parenting. At the heart of this system was an absolute rejection of mediocrity. Where many Western parents celebrated effort regardless of outcome, Chua demanded results. Practice sessions for both Sophia's piano and younger daughter Lulu's violin routinely lasted two to three hours daily—even on birthdays, vacations, and during illness. When the family traveled, Chua would call hotels in advance to secure practice rooms, sometimes resorting to storage closets or restaurant dining rooms during off-hours. Nothing—not jet lag, holidays, or her daughters' protests—would interfere with the sacred ritual of daily practice. The methodology behind this approach was as systematic as it was intense. Chua didn't simply tell her daughters to practice; she sat with them for every session, taking detailed notes, breaking difficult passages into manageable segments, and drilling them repeatedly until perfection was achieved. When Lulu struggled with a particularly challenging piece called "The Little White Donkey," Chua refused to let her give up. After hours of tears, threats, and tenacity, Lulu finally mastered the piece. "That's how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids," Chua explained. "They assume strength, not fragility, and as a result they behave very differently from Western parents." This demanding approach extended beyond music to every aspect of her daughters' development. Academics were non-negotiable; an A-minus was considered a poor grade warranting immediate intervention. Social activities common among their peers—sleepovers, playdates, television, video games—were forbidden as distractions from more important pursuits. When Sophia once created a hastily drawn birthday card for her mother, Chua returned it, saying, "I reject this. I want a better one—one that you've put some thought and effort into." Hours later, she received a more thoughtful card that she treasured. The discipline Chua instilled was not merely about external results but about developing internal qualities: perseverance, focus, resilience, and the confidence that comes from mastering difficult challenges. "Chinese parents understand that nothing is fun until you're good at it," she explained. When Lulu finally conquered "The Little White Donkey," she beamed with pride and wanted to play it repeatedly. This exemplified what Chua called the "virtuous circle": hard work leads to skill, skill brings satisfaction, satisfaction motivates more hard work. Critics might see this approach as joyless, but Chua argued that true joy comes from accomplishment, not from the shallow pleasures of entertainment or socializing. She saw Western emphasis on "having fun" and "following your passion" as ultimately depriving children of the deep satisfaction that comes from excellence. By setting the bar extraordinarily high and refusing to accept anything less, she believed she was giving her daughters something far more valuable than childhood freedom: the tools for lifetime achievement and the character to sustain it.

Chapter 3: Music as a Battleground: The Piano and Violin Years

The living room of the Chua-Rubenfeld household often resembled a war zone rather than a music studio. Musical instruments—specifically the piano for eldest daughter Sophia and the violin for younger daughter Lulu—became the primary battleground where Amy Chua's parenting philosophy played out in its most dramatic form. When Sophia was three, Chua introduced her to the piano using the Suzuki method, which required a parent to attend every lesson and supervise daily practice. What differentiated Chua from other Suzuki parents was her relentless intensity. While Western parents might require thirty minutes of daily practice, Chua demanded ninety minutes at minimum, even on vacation, even on Christmas, even during family crises. The violin entered their lives when Lulu was about six, carefully chosen by Chua as an instrument even more difficult and prestigious than the piano. "The violin is really hard—much harder to learn than the piano," Chua wrote. "With piano you just push a key and you know what note you're getting. With violin, you have to place your finger exactly on the right spot on the fingerboard—if you're even just 1/10 of a centimeter off, you're not perfectly in tune." This challenge was precisely why Chua selected it, believing that the greater the difficulty, the greater the potential for distinction. Practice sessions were famously grueling. Chua left nothing to chance, creating detailed practice notes with specific instructions for every measure. "KEEP YOUR VIOLIN UP!" she would write. "Especially during chords! Use ½ the bow pressure & faster bow. Lower elbow. Keep violin still!" Sometimes she would scream at her daughters, "Oh my God, you're just getting worse and worse," or threaten, "If the next time's not PERFECT, I'm going to TAKE ALL YOUR STUFFED ANIMALS AND BURN THEM!" These methods, while shocking to Western sensibilities, were rooted in Chua's belief that children could withstand criticism and emerge stronger. The results were undeniable. By age ten, Sophia was performing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D Major at Battell Chapel with a youth orchestra. Lulu became concertmaster of a prestigious youth orchestra at twelve, despite being younger than most other musicians. They performed at venues most children couldn't dream of—from Carnegie Hall to Budapest's Old Liszt Academy. Yet these achievements came at a cost. Teeth marks appeared on the piano from Sophia's frustration. Practice sessions with Lulu frequently devolved into screaming matches, with Lulu once complaining, "Your brain is annoying me. I know what you're thinking." The breaking point came during a family trip to Russia when Lulu was thirteen. After years of rebellion and resistance, a fight over caviar in a café in Red Square escalated into full-scale warfare. "I hate you," Lulu shouted. "You don't love me. You just make me feel bad about myself every second. You've wrecked my life." After Lulu smashed a glass on the floor, Chua fled across Red Square, eventually stopping to realize she had reached a breaking point. "Lulu," she finally said upon returning, "you win. It's over. We're giving up the violin." This moment marked a profound turning point, not just in their musical journey but in Chua's parenting philosophy. Music had been more than just an activity—it represented excellence, discipline, cultural values, and parental authority. The violin had become a symbol of everything Chua believed about raising successful children. Its rejection forced her to confront the limitations of her approach and the possibility that different children might require different paths to fulfillment.

Chapter 4: Rebellion and Resistance: When Western and Eastern Values Clash

The inevitable collision between Amy Chua's Chinese parenting methods and her daughters' American environment escalated as they entered adolescence. While Sophia largely accommodated her mother's demanding style, Lulu increasingly pushed back against the rigid expectations and relentless pressure. Their household became a microcosm of cultural conflict, with Lulu embodying Western values of individualism and self-determination that directly challenged her mother's authority-based approach. The conflict manifested most dramatically in their music battles. By age thirteen, Lulu had become remarkably accomplished on the violin, serving as concertmaster of a prestigious youth orchestra and studying with renowned teachers. Yet her resistance to practicing grew more intense and sophisticated. She developed psychological warfare tactics—deliberately playing out of tune, refusing to concentrate, plucking violin strings like a banjo, or dramatically collapsing to the floor pretending to be dead during practice sessions. "Are we done yet?" became her constant refrain, while Chua countered with ever-escalating threats and punishments. Lulu's rebellion extended beyond music to challenge core aspects of Chua's parenting philosophy. She began openly disobeying in public, something unthinkable in Chinese culture where face and reputation are paramount. "Leave me alone! I don't like you. Go away," she would shout in restaurants or stores, attracting concerned stares from strangers. Once, her screams in a parking lot drew the attention of a police officer. These public confrontations were particularly effective because they exposed the cultural isolation of Chua's methods—what might be accepted parenting in Shanghai appeared potentially abusive in suburban Connecticut. The conflict reached its climax during a family trip to Russia. At a café in Red Square, a dispute over trying caviar escalated into full-scale warfare. "I hate you!" Lulu shouted. "You've wrecked my life. I can't stand to be around you." When Chua dared her to smash a glass, Lulu did exactly that, sending water and shards flying as horrified tourists looked on. Chua fled across Red Square, suddenly confronting the failure of her parenting approach. In that moment, she realized she faced losing her daughter entirely if something didn't change. At the heart of this clash lay fundamentally different worldviews. For Chua, childhood was a training period for building character and skills that would ensure future success. Free time was wasted time; struggle built strength; authority deserved respect. For American-born Lulu, influenced by her school environment and father's more permissive Jewish-American background, childhood contained inherent value beyond preparation for adulthood. Self-expression, exploration, and autonomy weren't luxuries but rights. "Why can't I hang out with my friends like everyone else does?" she would demand. "Why does every second of my day have to be filled up with work?" This conflict was further complicated by Jed Rubenfeld's more Western approach. Though he supported Chua's high expectations, he worried about the emotional toll on their daughters. "Why do you insist on saying such glowing things about Sophia in front of Lulu all the time?" he asked during one fight. "Can't you see what's happening?" His concerns highlighted the complex dynamics in their multicultural household, where Eastern and Western parenting philosophies competed for dominance. What made this rebellion particularly painful for Chua was that it challenged not just her authority but her entire understanding of parenting as an expression of love. In her mind, her extreme methods demonstrated her complete dedication to her daughters' futures. Lulu's rejection felt like a repudiation not just of violin practice but of maternal sacrifice and devotion itself—the cornerstone of Chinese family values.

Chapter 5: Finding Balance: Learning to Let Go

The breaking point came in Moscow's Red Square, where Lulu's open rebellion forced Chua to confront the limitations of her parenting philosophy. After years of battles over violin practice, academic excellence, and cultural values, Chua made an unprecedented concession: "Lulu, you win. It's over. We're giving up the violin." This moment represented more than surrender in a musical power struggle; it marked the beginning of Chua's painful journey toward finding balance between her Chinese ideals and the realities of raising American daughters. Initially, Chua feared that letting go meant complete capitulation. She had always believed that Western permissiveness led to mediocrity and that relaxing standards would send her daughters down a slippery slope of underachievement. The prospect of Lulu abandoning the violin after years of investment felt like an unmitigated disaster. "I wandered around the house like a person who'd lost their mission, their reason for living," she admitted. When acquaintances would ask about her daughters' musical achievements, she felt ashamed to admit that Lulu had scaled back her violin commitment. Surprisingly, Lulu didn't abandon music entirely. "I don't want to quit," she told her mother. "I love the violin. I would never give it up. I just don't want to be so intense about it." This nuanced position challenged Chua's all-or-nothing thinking. Lulu continued playing but on her own terms—practicing thirty minutes daily instead of three hours, switching to a local teacher rather than traveling to New York for lessons with a famous instructor, and relinquishing her concertmaster position to make time for tennis. Watching Lulu develop passion for tennis taught Chua something unexpected about motivation and excellence. Without any parental pressure, Lulu approached tennis with the same intensity Chua had tried to instill for violin. After losing her first tournament, Lulu told her mother, "I'm going to beat her next time. I'm not good enough yet—but soon." She began requesting extra lessons and practicing her backhand with relentless determination. When Chua, spotting an opportunity, began researching tennis academies and training programs, Lulu firmly established boundaries: "No, Mommy—please stop. I can do this on my own. I don't need you to be involved." This transition forced Chua to reexamine her core assumptions about parenting. Perhaps her daughters didn't need constant intervention to develop discipline and drive. Perhaps different children truly did require different approaches. "Every child is different," her own mother had warned her. "You have to adjust, Amy." Chua began to recognize that what had worked for Sophia—who thrived under pressure and embraced her mother's high expectations—was crushing Lulu's spirit rather than strengthening it. The evolution in Chua's thinking extended beyond parenting to questions of cultural identity. As a second-generation immigrant, she had clung to what she considered Chinese values as a bulwark against Western permissiveness. Now she began to question whether some of these methods reflected true Chinese wisdom or simply her own anxiety about maintaining control. She remembered her father's strained relationship with his own mother, whose harsh, comparative parenting had driven him to emigrate to America and rarely look back. Perhaps there were cautionary lessons in her own family history that she had ignored. Finding balance didn't mean abandoning her belief in high expectations or the value of discipline. Sophia continued her rigorous piano studies, eventually performing for supreme court justices from around the world. But Chua learned to adapt her approach, to respect her daughters' differing temperaments, and to distinguish between pushing for excellence and demanding perfection. Most importantly, she learned that letting go didn't necessarily mean giving up—sometimes it meant making space for different kinds of success to emerge.

Chapter 6: Family Trials: Battling Illness and Gaining Perspective

In the midst of Chua's parenting battles with Lulu came a series of family health crises that profoundly altered her perspective. First, her mother-in-law Florence was diagnosed with acute leukemia just months after completing treatment for breast cancer. Despite Florence's sophisticated cultural tastes and artistic sensibilities, she had always been Chua's opposite in parenting philosophy, believing childhood should be "full of spontaneity, freedom, discovery, and experience." Their differences had caused tension, yet when faced with Florence's mortality, Chua didn't hesitate to welcome her into their home for care during her final months. Florence's illness forced Chua to confront questions about what truly matters in life. While Florence had always valued happiness and present-moment enjoyment, Chua had dismissed these as Western indulgences that undermined achievement. "Happiness is not a concept I tend to dwell on," she admitted. "Chinese parenting does not address happiness." Yet watching Florence's grace in facing death, and observing how she focused entirely on connecting with her granddaughters in her final weeks, planted seeds of doubt about Chua's relentless future orientation. The lessons from Florence's passing had barely begun to settle when an even more devastating blow struck: Chua's beloved younger sister Katrin was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia. At just forty, Katrin was a brilliant scientist at Stanford with two young children. The diagnosis came with a grim prognosis—without a successful bone marrow transplant, she would not survive. "I can't believe it," Katrin told Chua through tears. "What's going to happen to Jake? And Ella won't even know me." Katrin's illness unfolded against the backdrop of Chua's ongoing struggles with Lulu. While fighting to save her sister's life—researching treatments, organizing care for Katrin's children, flying constantly between New Haven and Boston—Chua was simultaneously battling her daughter over violin practice, school activities, and cultural values. The juxtaposition was jarring. How could violin fingerings matter when Katrin might not live to see another year? Yet paradoxically, the routines of daily life, even the conflicts, provided a necessary anchor amid overwhelming uncertainty. For Katrin, motherhood became her primary motivation for survival. A physician herself, she approached her illness with remarkable focus and determination, reviewing her own lab results, researching clinical trials, and forcing herself to walk daily despite debilitating treatments. Her single-minded purpose was clear: to live for her children. Watching this, Chua recognized a different manifestation of maternal love—not through achievement pressure but through sheer will to remain present in her children's lives. The perspective gained through these family trials slowly transformed Chua's approach to parenting. When Lulu chopped off her own hair in an act of rebellion, Chua's first instinct was to explode with anger. Instead, she found herself responding with unexpected calmness, recognizing that in the face of life's fragility, a haircut—even a terrible one—was trivial. Similarly, when Lulu refused to give a toast at her father's fiftieth birthday celebration, Chua still fumed but found herself unable to maintain the absolute stance she once would have taken. Perhaps most significantly, these family crises helped Chua recognize the limitations of control. Despite her sister's medical knowledge, determination, and access to excellent care, Katrin's survival depended largely on factors beyond anyone's influence—finding a matching donor, her body's response to treatment, the unpredictable course of disease. This harsh reality paralleled Chua's parenting journey: no matter how perfectly executed her child-rearing strategy, her daughters would ultimately follow their own paths, shaped by forces beyond her control. Through Florence's death and Katrin's struggle for survival, Chua gained what years of parenting books could never have taught her—a visceral understanding of life's brevity and the importance of connection alongside achievement. While never abandoning her belief in excellence and discipline, she began to recognize that there might be multiple paths to a meaningful life, and that sometimes letting go is as important as holding firm.

Chapter 7: Cultural Identity: Navigating Between Two Worlds

Amy Chua's parenting journey was inextricably linked to her complex cultural identity. As the daughter of Chinese immigrants growing up in the American Midwest, she had always straddled two worlds. Her childhood home operated by Chinese rules—speaking Chinese at home, drilling math problems after school, never questioning parental authority—while outside their doors stretched an America that celebrated individualism, self-expression, and the pursuit of happiness. This cultural duality shaped not just her own identity but her approach to raising her daughters in a context vastly different from her parents' experience. The tension between these cultural approaches manifested most visibly during family travels. In China, despite Sophia and Lulu's Chinese appearance and language abilities, locals immediately identified them as foreigners. "You're the only one who thinks I'm Chinese," Sophia once told her mother. "No one in China thinks I'm Chinese. No one in America thinks I'm Chinese." This cultural limbo extended to their home life, where Chua's husband Jed brought his own cultural background as the child of Jewish intellectuals with values that often aligned more with Western parenting norms than Chinese ones. For Chua, Chinese parenting represented not just cultural tradition but a bulwark against what she perceived as American mediocrity. She saw Western parents as indulgent, afraid to demand excellence, and unwilling to acknowledge hierarchical relationships between parents and children. "In Chinese culture, it just wouldn't occur to children to question, disobey, or talk back to their parents," she explained. "In American culture, kids in books, TV shows, and movies constantly score points with their snappy backtalk and independent streaks." This cultural difference became particularly apparent during Lulu's rebellion, as American acquaintances often sided with Lulu while Chua's Chinese relatives understood her maternal authority. The cultural tensions extended beyond parenting to fundamental questions about what constitutes a good life. Chua's mother-in-law Florence embodied Western ideals of childhood as a time for exploration and self-discovery. "She believed that childhood should be full of spontaneity, freedom, discovery, and experience," Chua noted, contrasting this with her own view of "childhood as a training period, a time to build character and invest for the future." These competing visions created friction not just between Chua and her daughters but within her extended family. As her daughters grew, Chua faced the dilemma common to immigrant parents: how to preserve cultural heritage while allowing children to integrate into their native country. She insisted on Mandarin lessons and celebrated Chinese holidays, but also embraced her husband's Jewish traditions, raising their daughters with both cultural influences. The hybrid identity she created for her family sometimes satisfied neither cultural standard completely—too Chinese for America, too American for China—yet it formed its own unique synthesis. The pivotal moment in Red Square forced Chua to confront the limitations of imposing her cultural values wholesale. When Lulu rejected the violin—which for Chua symbolized Chinese discipline, respect for hierarchy, and cultural refinement—she was not merely rejecting an instrument but challenging her mother's entire cultural framework. Chua's eventual compromise represented not just parental flexibility but a recognition that cultural identity is not an either/or proposition but a continuing negotiation. In her journey toward balance, Chua came to appreciate that the strengths of Chinese parenting—emphasis on excellence, respect for expertise, belief in children's resilience—could be preserved while accommodating more Western recognition of individual differences and autonomous development. She never abandoned her core cultural values but learned to apply them with greater flexibility and sensitivity to context. "When Chinese parenting succeeds, there's nothing like it," she reflected. "But it doesn't always succeed." This cultural navigation ultimately enriched both Chua and her daughters. Rather than seeing her children's bicultural identity as diluting their Chinese heritage, she began to recognize it as additive—incorporating the best elements of both traditions while creating something new. Through this process, Chua herself evolved, becoming neither purely Chinese nor Western in her approach but developing a more nuanced understanding that acknowledged the complexity of raising children at the intersection of cultures.

Summary

Amy Chua's journey as a Tiger Mother reveals a profound truth about parenting that transcends cultural boundaries: love expresses itself in many forms, sometimes through unrelenting demands and sometimes through letting go. Her evolution from an uncompromising advocate of "Chinese parenting" to a more balanced mother who could respect her daughters' individuality without abandoning her core values offers wisdom for parents navigating their own cultural crossroads. The greatest lesson from Chua's experience is not whether Eastern or Western parenting is superior, but that genuine excellence requires both structure and freedom, both discipline and self-determination. In her willingness to question her most fundamental assumptions when confronted with her daughter's rebellion and her sister's illness, Chua demonstrates that true strength comes not from rigid adherence to a system but from the courage to adapt when life demands it. The Tiger Mother's story ultimately speaks to anyone striving to reconcile competing values in their approach to life's most important relationships. It challenges both the extreme permissiveness that can masquerade as freedom and the unyielding control that can suffocate individuality. For those seeking to nurture excellence without crushing spirit, Chua's journey suggests that the path forward lies in maintaining high expectations while respecting each person's unique temperament and gifts. Perhaps the most valuable insight is that meaningful achievement rarely comes from choosing between discipline and joy, but from discovering how they can reinforce each other in the pursuit of a life well-lived.

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Amy Chua

Amy Chua is a Professor at Yale Law School and author of the debut novel THE GOLDEN GATE, coming 9/19/2023. She is also the bestselling author of numerous nonfiction books, including World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (2003), which was selected by both The Economist and the U.K.’s Guardian as a Best Book of 2003, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall (2007); The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America (2013); and Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations (2018). Her 2011 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother was a runaway international bestseller that has been translated into over 30 languages.

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