"To believe everything you read is worse than reading nothing at all." Mencius 'warning, made 2000 years ago, is a suitable end note to this discussion of oral history, and it is also the point that keeps us fascinated by history.
「盡信書，不如無書」﹘﹘孟子兩千年前的忠告，正可以作為口述歷史的註腳，這也正是歷史的迷人之處。