Bo Yang's memoirs are a book of modern Chinese history, in which he covers the entire span of the 20th century. Nevertheless, the book's greatest value isn't in what it records from before 1949, but rather in the sad descriptions of his imprisonment on trumped up charges and the period after it.
《柏楊回憶錄》是一本中國現代史，它敘述了幾乎整個二十世紀中國發生的大事，不過，本書最高的價值卻不在一九四九年以前的記錄，而在柏老被誣入獄以及出獄前後的那段血淚交加的故事。