About the author

Wang Liming is a Chinese author known for science writing. Public information about him is limited, and details such as his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly documented. The library holds five of his works, including The Scalpel of God: A Brief History of Gene Editing, The Scalpel of God, and three titles from the Mountain Patrol Report series: Gene-Edited Babies: Clowns and History, Where Do Modern Chinese Come From, and How to Understand a Completely New Disease. His subjects center on frontier scientific issues such as gene editing, modern diseases, and the origins of the Chinese people, and his works are commonly classified as documentary literature, social science, and popular science. His writing situates complex biological knowledge within specific events and historical contexts, balancing scientific explanation with public discussion, and has earned him a following among popular science and social science readers.

Written (8)

Mountain Patrol Report · Gene-Edited Babies: The Clown and History cover
Rating 4.5
Mountain Patrol Report · Gene-Edited Babies: The Clown and History 王立铭 Hunan Science & Technology Press · 2025 The Mountain Patrol Report is Professor Wang Liming's grand science writing project: he plans to spend thirty years continuously observing and analyzi…
Lectures on Brain Science cover
Rating 4.2
Lectures on Brain Science 王立铭 New Star Press · 2025 Every day we rely on our brains to make decisions, feel emotions, remember and forget, yet we know surprisingly little about this soft organ that weig…
Mountain Patrol Report 2: How to Understand a Completely New Disease cover
Rating 4.0
Mountain Patrol Report 2: How to Understand a Completely New Disease 王立铭 Hunan Science & Technology Press · 2025 The Mountain Patrol Report is Professor Wang Liming's ambitious science-writing project: over 30 years he plans to track and analyze the latest advanc…
Mountain Patrol Report: Where Do Modern Chinese Come From cover
Rating 4.0
Mountain Patrol Report: Where Do Modern Chinese Come From 王立铭 Hunan Science & Technology Press · 2025 "Mountain Patrol Report" is Professor Wang Liming's ambitious science writing project: over 30 years he plans to continuously observe and analyze the …
God's Scalpel cover
Rating 4.4
God's Scalpel 王立铭 Zhejiang Education Publishing House · 2022 This book begins with Gregor Mendel's pea experiments and, through a literary storytelling style full of twists, turns, and rising action, plants laye…
God's Scalpel: A Concise History of Gene Editing cover
Rating 4.2
God's Scalpel: A Concise History of Gene Editing 王立铭 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2021 This book begins with Gregor Mendel's "pea experiments" and, through a literary narrative full of twists and turns, plants layer upon layer of foresha…
The Surgeon's Scalpel of God: A Brief History of Gene Editing cover
Rating 4.4
The Surgeon's Scalpel of God: A Brief History of Gene Editing 王立铭 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2017 The Scalpel of God: A Brief History of Gene Editing is a popular science book on the life sciences by Wang Liming, a professor at the Life Sciences In…
The Biological Education of a Foodie: The Scientific Saga of Fat, Sugar, and Metabolic Disease cover
Rating 4.2
The Biological Education of a Foodie: The Scientific Saga of Fat, Sugar, and Metabolic Disease 王立铭 Tsinghua University Press · 2016 The Biological Education of a Foodie is a popular science book on metabolism written by Wang Liming, a professor at the Life Sciences Institute of Zhe…

Publishers

New Star PressZhejiang People's Publishing HouseZhejiang Education Publishing HouseTsinghua University PressHunan Science & Technology Press