Wang Meng, the former Minister of Culture in the mainland, suggests that the fact that there are readers in Taiwan for books about Mao and Deng "indicates that Taiwan is still within the political radiation range of the mainland." It also shows that people in Taiwan have an interest in influential persons.
大陸前文化部長王蒙認為，毛、鄧等人的書在台有讀者，「顯然台灣還在大陸強大政治圈的輻射範圍內」，他說，也顯見台灣民眾對具影響力的政治人物的關切。