When Liu Shao-tang, publisher of Biographical Literature magazine, died of liver cancer on 10 February 2000, it came as a heavy blow to Taiwan's cultural, academic and publishing circles, and awakened many people's reverence and nostalgia for Liu's unfailing lifelong dedication to biography as a form of literature.
傳記文學雜誌社社長劉紹唐於二月十日因肝病去世，帶給了文化、學術及出版界極大的震撼；也讓許多人對劉紹唐一生奉獻於傳記文學的執著信念，有著無限的景仰與懷念。