For example, one of the authors, Gu Qingsheng points out that Lao She may have won the Nobel Prize for Literature if he had not "gone to Taiping Lake to leave the world" (p.284).
舉例來說，本書作者之一古清生指出，假使老舍沒有「走向太平湖辭別人間」，他應該會得到諾貝爾文學獎。