Sinological formatting
I recently received this book:
Sūn Sīmiǎo, Sabine Wilms. Healing Virtue-Power: Medical Ethics and the Doctor's Dao. Whidbey Island WA: Happy Goat Productions, 2022.
ISBN: 978-1-7321571-9-4
As soon as I started to leaf through the volume, I was struck by its unusual format and usages: every Chinese character is accompanied by Hanyu Pinyin phonetic annotation with tones, and all terms and sentences are translated into English. But that's just the beginning; after introducing the original author and the translator, I will point out additional features of this remarkable, praiseworthy monograph.
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