Yue's book explores the nature of translation using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the TCM classic Huangdi Neijing and its various translations. Yue examines in great detail and depth the important factors that cause the differences in the translators' treatment of language indeterminacies.

Yan Yue has a PhD in linguistics from Macquarie University, Australia. She is currently a Postdoc research fellow at Sun Yat Sen University, China.