Ping Lu laments that political memoirs, which served as a record of the age, have been replaced by all manner of books by and about celebrities, which cater to readers 'appetites for secrets and salacious detail. Purely literary works with serious topics and artistic content, moreover, have gradually been replaced by the pap and potboilers of "popular literature."
平路慨嘆，以往希望為歷史作見證的政壇人士回憶錄，已被名流影星的各式傳記取代，為的是滿足讀者的「窺秘」心理；以往擁有廣大讀者群的、有嚴肅主題與藝術內涵的「純文學」，也逐漸被嬉笑怒罵式的「大眾文學」所取代。