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

His work challenged social taboos by carefully documenting the cultural history of sexuality in China. Grounded in extensive fieldwork and cultural study, his scholarship helped foster greater intellectual openness toward a subject that had long been considered taboo.