As an art educator, Liao believed that there was no right or wrong in art. During his years as a professor at the National Taiwan Normal University, Liao gave his students personal freedom to paint in their own ways.
Located in Duxingshi Village Cultural Park, Penghu Bookstore is an independent bookstore opened in 2022 in Magong City of Penghu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands. The bookstore is housed in what was once a military dependents’ village, which had gradually been abandoned over time.