Tale of the Tiger Dad

Thomas Derksen and his Chinese bride, Zhu Liping, hold a Chinese wedding in Shanghai in 2014. When Thomas Derksen, who was born in Gumersbach, Germany, in 1988, went to the Snake Artificial Island in the suburb of Shanghai to fish with his Chinese father-in-law, he thought it was a good opportunity for the two to improve their relationship, as his wife Zhu Liping suggested. On the one-and-half-hour journey to the island, Derksen's father-in-law, "old Zhu", who's the manager of a local driving school, called five of his friends one by one, promising to give them each two fish, in addition to the two he had promised to his wife. Derksen recounts this funny anecdote in his German book, Und Taglich gruBt der Tigervater: Als deutscher Schwiegersohn in China based on his love story with Zhu Liping. In 2017, Thomas Derksen and Zhu Liping had became popular online in China for the funny videos they created, mainly about the culture shock between China and Germany.