The Educational Instruction Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies has recently produced a series of textbooks entitled the “World Textbook Series for Chinese Medicine Core Curriculum” . The Chief Editor for that series was Zhang Bo-li, which you perhaps may remember for being the person in charge of controlling the original Covid-19 outbreak at the epicenter in Wuhan in early 2020. Well, in 2014, Prof. Zhang approached the most famous proponents of each Chinese medicine specialty from all over the world, to compile the textbooks in the series. At that time, my first book, the “Gold Mirrors and Tongue Reflections” was making big waves in the TCM Diagnosis circles in China. And although I had not yet completed my PhD, I was invited to co-author the Diagnostics volume, as Associate Chief Editor , being the youngest scholar of the entire project. The position of Chief Editor was of...