Dr Xiuwu R. Liu studied English at Hunan University in Changsha, contemporary American society at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, American studies at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and the philosophy and methodology of cross-cultural inquiry as well as modern China at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Since 1994 he has been an assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies at Miami University in Oxford, USA. Liu is a member of the American Philosophical Association. His previous books include Western Perspectives on Chinese Higher Education (Fairleigh Dickinson, 1996), Jumping into the Sea (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), Wandering from China to America (1st ed., Zip, 2006), Deflating Human Beings, corrected version, 4 vols. (2022) and Chinese Satire (2022).