Views expressed in Column pieces are those of the individual author and do not represent the official position of Aotea.Asia. 专栏文章观点为作者个人立场，不代表 Aotea.Asia 官方立场。
A recurring weakness in New Zealand-Asia historical writing is over-reliance on English-language secondary sources for events that unfolded primarily in Mandarin, Japanese, Korean or Malay. The Edward Selby Little entry in this site's China pavilion, for instance, draws partly on an English-language blog's synthesis of Chinese-language local gazetteers this columnist has not yet been able to verify independently.
新西兰-亚洲历史写作中一个反复出现的弱点，是对主要以中文、日语、韩语或马来语展开的历史事件，过度依赖英文二手文献。以本站中国展厅里的李德立条目为例，其部分内容依据的是一篇英文博客对中文地方志的转述综合，而这一转述本身，本专栏作者尚未能独立核实原始出处。
This is not a criticism of any single entry — it is a structural argument for why a site like this one should, over time, build genuine multilingual research capacity rather than translating outward from English-language scholarship alone.
这并非针对某一具体词条的批评，而是一个结构性论点：像本站这样的平台，长远来看应当建立真正的多语种研究能力，而不能只是把英文学术成果单向翻译出去。
References 参考
This column references the Edward Selby Little biography in Wiki People.
本专栏引用了知库人物志中的李德立传记条目。