Culturally, there is almost zero difference between those countries and China today. Communism hasn't even made a dent in Confucianism, from whence the Tiger Mom ethos stems.
There is in fact a good and relevant recent Chinese TV drama called "Tiger Mom", starring actress Zhao Wei and set in Beijing. It's available on Dramafever.com, for those who subscribe to it. The show lays out all the pressures on the Chinese "one child" family with humor and surprising honesty, from giving up their luxurious house in the suburbs to move to an ugly apartment so they can send their daughter to a in a top-ranked school, to dealing with the old Communist grandfather, a former school superintendent with Tiger Mom-style ideas on education, to seeing Zhao Wei's character transform from a loving and sympathetic mother to a slave driving tyrant, desperate to force her daughter as far up the education ladder as possible. Well worth watching, and a good picture of life in modern Beijing, where they have a lot of the same public education troubles we face in the US (i.e., good schools are great - bad ones are less than worthless).
And it doesn’t hurt that Zhao Wei is pretty good looking too. But those eyes apparently will drive weaker men to court: http://tinyurl.com/zfyveoc