About the Author

Dr. Amy Pierovich is a Sinologist with a background in critical hermeneutic theory. She taught English at the Kunming Institute of Technology in Kunming, China. The author later returned to China, to the urban metropolis of Shanghai, in order to conduct anthropological field research on the topic of language, culture and identity. She received a Doctorate of Education at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Pierovich has also published an essay, "Understanding Paul Ricoeur's 'Oneself as Another.'"