"When Hu Shih was alive, he strongly recommended that everyone should write their autobiography," say Peng Ming-min, who was once Hu's protege, and who is an avid proponent of Hu's concept that "everyone should leave their own testimony to history."
「胡適生前極力鼓吹，希望人人都要寫傳」，曾受胡適知遇之恩的彭明敏，很贊同這種「人人都為歷史留下自己的見證」的觀念。