Michael Shi-yung Liu is a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an affiliate of the Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh. He formerly worked at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He writes about the history of modern medicine in East Asia, Japanese colonial medicine, and East Asian environmental history. He is the author of Prescribing Colonization: The Role of Medical Practice and Policy in Japan-Ruled Taiwan (Association for Asian Studies, 2009). His book in Chinese on modern medicine in East Asian societies will be published by the end of 2023.