"The statements of the first speakers become the memories of the later speakers," is how Wang Ming-ko describes it. This type of oral history can only produce a "collective memory," and not historical fact per se.
如此，「前面人的口述，變成後來人的記憶」，王明珂形容，這樣的口述歷史，呈現的僅是一群人的集體記憶。