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Liu Xiang is an author about whom limited public information is available. Three works are currently known, spanning traditional Chinese medicine and world history. In medicine, he wrote A Brief Discussion of Cold Damage: Understanding Cold Damage Through Circular Movement and Gateway to Chinese Medicine. The former offers an interpretation of the Treatise on Cold Damage, attempting to organize its theoretical framework around the idea of circular movement, while the latter focuses on the entry paths into Chinese medicine and is aimed at beginners. In world history, he is the author of Understanding French History in One Sitting, which presents the development of French history in an accessible style. Judging from these three works, Liu Xiang's writing combines professional concern with readability: he can engage with specific questions in the Chinese medical classics and also handle general history in a popular manner, which is why his works are classified under medicine and world history respectively.