Anthropologist Liu Shao-Hua earned her PhD at Columbia University, and currently works at the Academia Sinica Institute of Ethnology. Her research focuses on the interactions of society and global health issues from the perspective of infectious disease. Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China (Stanford University, 2010) is one of her many research publications which have earned awards and recognition in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, other international academic societies.