Liu Dalin, a pioneering Chinese sexologist and founder of the China Sex Museum, was photographed in Shanghai in 2000. During the same week, he appeared on the cover of Newsweek Asia, underscoring the international recognition his research had begun to garner.

His work challenged social taboos by meticulously documenting the cultural history of sexuality in China. His scholarly pursuits, grounded in extensive fieldwork and cultural studies, helped foster greater intellectual openness toward a subject once considered taboo.