In reviewing the novel, Yeh Shi-tao has written that Chung, "in the midst of the White Terror, still affirmed the autonomous identity, vibrancy and desire for nationhood of the Taiwanese people."
葉石濤曾評論，這部小說「在白色陰影籠罩下，仍能高舉台灣人獨立存在的標幟，委實闡明了台灣人頑強生命力與獨立建國的意願」。