Leading literary scholar Liang Shih-chiu spent 40 years translating the complete works of Shakespeare into Chinese, and his work has become a standard reference for students of Western literature. Liu Shao-tang, meanwhile, has collected more than 100 million Chinese characters of first-hand testimony, building a "Great Wall" of historical materials for that most controversial of periods in Chinese history--the Republican era, from 1911 to the present day.
文學泰斗梁實秋窮四十年的功夫譯出《莎士比亞》全集，成為國內研究西洋文學者的聖經；劉紹唐則蒐集整理了上億字的第一手史料，為國史上最具爭議性的時代，砌起一座「民國史長城」。