If one writes memoirs or oral history under one's own name, then responsibility for what is written is quite clearly one's own, regardless of how it is received by readers. But beside the autobiographies of political figures now in the bookshops, there are many biographies of the "docu-novel" type.
自己掛名寫回憶錄或口述歷史，不管讀者評價如何，總是文責自負，相當明確；但目前坊間的政治人物傳記或評傳，卻有一大部分是由第三者以「側寫」方式呈現。