This book is a crosscultural gendered study of both self and curriculum. Initiating a conversation between and among Michel Foucault Confucius and Julia Kristeva it searches for a new third cultural and psychic space of transformation and creativity. Weaving together philosophy psychoanalysis and autobiography through lived experiences of curriculum it calls for new configurations of subjectivity at the intersection of culture and gender through the meeting between selfhood and the human psyche in the dynamics of the semiotic and the symbolic and through the interaction between the Western subject and the Chinese self. These multiple layers of inquiry provide unique perspectives for readers who are interested in curriculum theory feminist analysis philosophy of education or EastWest dialogue.