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Yan Qing is an author about whom limited public information is available; three works are known under this name, spanning popular science and biography. In popular science, The Minds of All Beings: Animal Intelligence Beyond Imagination explores animal cognition and intelligence, seeking to bring cutting-edge research on animal behavior to general readers. In biography, Yan Qing has written Truth and Reflection: A Biography of Ren Jiyu and Son of Nature: A Biography of Gao Dengyi, which respectively recount the lives and thought of the philosopher Ren Jiyu and the scientist Gao Dengyi. Judging from these works, Yan Qing's writing combines informative content with readability, popularizing scientific ideas for a broad audience while using biography to trace scholars' paths of learning and their spiritual pursuits. Because information such as dates of birth and death, nationality, and educational background is unavailable, a fuller picture of the author's personal experience and body of work awaits further material.