After his death in 1953, she served as head of the Xu Beihong Memorial Museum and the curator of his extensive art collection.

[1] After leaving high school, she traveled to Guilin, where she saw an advertisement for an administrator at the China Academy of Art at its wartime base in Chongqing.

[2] Liao took the position in 1943, whilst also enrolling in the arts and sciences institute of Jinling Women's College that had also set-up a campus in Chengdu.

[2] The memorial museum was shut down in 1967 to make way for a subway, however, Liao wrote to Mao Zedong in 1972 to request that another venue be found for it.

The book has been translated into English, published as Xu Beihong: Life of a Master Painter, as well as French and Japanese.

Many of the contents of the book are accused of malicious and false descriptions of Xu Beihong's ex-wife and other famous painters of the same period.