Liao Yuqun, born in 1953, graduated from Beijing Second Medical College in 1981, and now a researcher and director of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as vice-president of the Chinese Society of History of Science and Technology. His academic works include The Qihuang Medical Science, The Translation of Yellow Emperor's Canon of Difficulties in Modern Chinese, Ayurveda: Traditional Indian Medicine, Imagery Thinking of Traditional Chinese Medicine, etc.