About the author

Yang Meng is an author about whom limited public information is available. Three works are held in the collection, falling into two categories, science fiction and medicine, a notably wide range of subjects. On the science fiction side is Battle Fairy Yukikaze: Good Luck, whose title suggests aviation and aerial combat, pointing to a light-novel style of science fiction writing. On the medical side are Illustrated Pulse Secrets Authenticated and A Quick Method for Diagnosing Illness, titles that indicate practical summaries of pulse study with diagrams and of diagnostic methods, showing that the author has devoted attention to organizing and popularizing traditional medical texts. Because the dates of birth and death, nationality, and English name are all unknown, the author's life cannot be verified; it is impossible to confirm whether the two kinds of writing are connected, or to determine the order in which they were produced or their overall character. The available clues indicate only an author who has engaged in both fantasy narrative and practical medical writing, whose works merit further attention from the perspective of cross-disciplinary authorship.

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Publishers

China Press of Traditional Chinese MedicineNew Star Press