Ya fara karatunsa a Jami'ar Yale, inda ya kammala karatu tare da BA a cikin Sinanci a 1987, kuma a lokacin kwalejin ya yi karatu a kasashen waje a Jami'ar Taiwan ta Kasa. Pastreich ya sami MA a cikin wallafe-wallafen kwatanta a Jami'ar Tokyo a 1991, inda ya rubuta rubutun master, Edo kôkijin bun Tanomura Chikuden: Edo Muyô no shiga " (The Late Literatus Tanomura Chikuden; The Uselessness of Painting and Poetry), gaba ɗaya a cikin Jafananci. Daga nan ya koma Amurka kuma a 1998 ya sami Ph.D. a Nazarin Gabashin Asiya a Jami'ar Harvard. Ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin farfesa a Jami'ar Illinois a UrbanaChampaign, George Washington, da kuma Makarantar Kasuwancin Kasuwanci ta Duniya.
Jami'ar Illinois a Urbana<unk>Champaign, Jami'ar George Washington, da kuma Solbridge International School of Business