Lisa Carducci，Born in Canada, Lisa Carducci has been cumulatively a student for 21 years, a language teacher for 30 years, a journalist for 20, but a writer for her all life.
She majored in Linguistics and Pedagogy at the University of Montreal.
Following two visits in 1985 and 1989, she established in China in 1991 where she taught French and Italian in a Beijing university.
While working with CCTV, then with Beijing Review, she was destined to visit several parts of China; now retired, she keeps travelling, paying a special attention to all aspects of education across the country, visiting schools, interviewing headmasters, teachers, parents, students of the Han and other ethnic groups.
In 2001, Lisa Carducci was granted Friendship Award of the People's Republic of China for ’’outstanding contribution to the international friendship and enthusiastic support to the construction if a modern China’’. In 2005, she was one of the first foreigners in China to be awarded the permanent residence in the PRC.
Several of her publications were awardedinternationally.
