As Chen San-ching, former director of the Institute of Modern History at the Academia Sinica says, the magazine is for this very reason extremely useful in compensating for the inadequacies of static documentary materials.
中央研究院近代史研究所前所長陳三井表示，「傳記文學」的確能補充靜態文獻資料的不足，在這些材料中史家亦可找到歷史線索，甚或為難解的問題指點迷津。