Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve follows journalist Lenora Chu as she enrolls her young son in a Shanghai public school and explores China’s highly disciplined, high-achieving education system. Through personal experience and in-depth reporting, Chu examines the benefits of academic rigor alongside the pressures of competition, conformity, and high-stakes testing, offering a thought-provoking comparison of Eastern and Western approaches to education.