Li Jen-kuei, director of Academia Sinica's Institute of Linguistics, Preparatory Office, wrote as follows in the book's preface: "Much has been written about the Wushe Incident, but Teng Hsiang-yang is the only one to do it with such depth and feeling." Teng, however, feels rather uncomfortable about winning a prize for nonfiction with his very first book.
中研院語言學研究所籌備處主任李壬癸在序言中說：「有關霧社事件的報導雖然不少，但能如此深入而又筆鋒常帶情感的報導，這是第一篇。」