Liu Yi

Liu Yi (born 1945), whose original name is Liu Xiaoshan, is a native of Guangdong and an English educator based in Taiwan, China. In 1971 he founded the Liu Yi English education institution in Tainan, and in 1984 he established the Learning Publishing Company, which has published more than 500 English textbooks. His representative works include the Breakthrough English Vocabulary series, the English Root Dictionary, and Liu Yi's Grammar Treasury, and he has promoted the "One-Breath English" teaching method, exerting a broad influence in the field of English-learning publishing. Beyond English education, the library also holds several of his works on traditional Chinese medicine and health, such as Dong's acupuncture, tongue diagnosis, schools of Chinese medicine, and cupping and gua sha self-treatment, as well as works on pharmaceutical analysis, e-commerce operations, and financial management, showing a cross-disciplinary range of writing interests. Public information is limited, and few details of his life are available, but the existing works suggest that his writing combines the practicality of textbooks with the popularization of professional knowledge, addressing both learners and general readers.