From his early fame under the pen name of Teng Ko-pao as the writer of the novel Foreign Land, to The ugly Chinese of the eighties, which exposed the hypocrisy, selfishness and disunity of the Chinese and was a hotly discussed book in Chinese communities overseas, the writer Po Yang has continually been at the center of attention.
從早年以筆名鄧克保撰寫小說《異域》，到八十年代《醜陋的中國人》一書揭露中國人虛偽、自私、不團結等性格病徵，在海外華人世界引起熱烈的討論，作家柏楊似乎一直受到注目。