Of heroic exploits Liu Wei-kai states: "Looking at the broader picture, over the last 38-plus years Biographical Literature has not only made a great contribution to political and military history, it has also touched upon the cultural transformation in the early Republican era, the life of women, and subjects like leisure and recreation in that time."
讓敗兵言勇，給遺臣表功「擴大來看，三十幾年的『傳記』還不僅留下北伐、抗戰、國共內戰等大歷史，對民初新舊文化衝突、婦女生活，以及休閒娛樂等範疇也都有所觸及」，劉維開說。