{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  The structure of the book makes checking the sources more difficult than is usual for a work of serious scholarship. To identify a source, you have first to flip to a section of notes at the back,  where source citations are arranged by the page numbers of the main text. Under each page number are several bold-face tag lines keyed to sentences on that page. After each tag line is a list of  sources, often as many as five or six. These citations provide only the author\u0026rsquo;s name and page numbers. You have to flip back and forth in the bibliography to identify the sources. The bibliography  in turn is divided into two sections, one for Chinese sources and one for non-Chinese sources. Moreover, many of the source titles are abbreviated, so you have to check the two lists of  abbreviations before going to the two bibliographies. When multiple sources are cited for a single assertion, it is often unclear which source is intended to support the controversial part of a  passage in the text. If four sources fail to do so and the fifth is inaccessible, then the controversial assertion is impossible to check.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}