Faasino i le vaega o loo i lalo ma tali le fesili mulimuli ane i le gagana lava lea e tasi e pei o le vaega:  Talaaga: Sa auai Pastreich i le Lowell High School i San Francisco, ma faauu ai i le 1983. Na amata ana aʻoaʻoga i le Iunivesite o Yale, lea na ia faʻauʻuina ai ma le B.A. i le gagana Saina i le 1987, ma aʻoga i fafo i le National Taiwan University. Na maua e Pastreich se M.A. i tusitusiga faʻatusatusa i le Iunivesite o Tokyo i le 1991, lea na ia tusia ai le master's dissertation, Edo kôki bunjin Tanomura Chikuden: Muyô no shiga " (The Late Edo Literatus Tanomura Chikuden; The Uselessness of Painting and Poetry), atoa i le gagana Iapani. Ona toe foʻi lea i le Iunaite Setete ma i le 1998 na ia mauaina lona Ph.D. i Asia i Sasaʻe suʻesuʻega i le Iunivesite o Harvard. Na avea o ia ma polofesa fesoasoani i le Iunivesite o Ilinoi i Urbana <unk> Champign, George Washington University, ma Solbridge International School of Business. Pastreich o se polofesa lagolago i le Kolisi o Suesuega Faavaomalo, Kyung Hee Iunivesite. E toatolu ona tei, Michael Pastreich, Anna Schlagel ma Milena Pastreich.  Fesili: O fea na galue ai o ia?
Iunivesite o Ilinoi i Urbana<unk>Champaign, Iunivesite o George Washington, ma le Solbridge International School of Business