Xiaoying Liao is a social science researcher and a freelance writer. Her interest is to write nonfictional books and essays on education, environment, public life, and history. She is the author of tree books in Chinese : Gongqing yangyu: He qingchunqi de haizi yiqi chengzhang (Empathic Parenting: Growing up with adolescents), Beijing: China Friendship Publishing Corporation, 2022; Zhongxue haineng zheyang shang: Jianada jiaoyu de jingshen yu xijie (The Middle School That Is Different: The spirit and details of Canada’s middle school education), Ningbo: Ningbo Publishing House, 2015; Xiaoxue haineng zheyang shang: Zhongguo mama yanzhong de Jianada xiaoxue jiaoyu (The Elementary School That Is Different: Canada’s elementary education in a Chinese mother’s eyes), Ningbo: Ningbo Publishing House, 2011. She received a Ph.D. in Mass communication (1995) and a D.E.A. (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) in Mass communication(1991) from the Paris University Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France), a MA in journalism/press law from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, China,1987), a B.A. in French Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984). She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, China), 1987-1990, and taught the French and Chinese languages at the Baptist University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Victoria( Canada).