"Even though a person may be dead, if his followers, children and family are still alive, one may still not be able to write as frankly as one would wish, and this goes against the historian's highest principle of 'seeking truth,'" remarks Wang Shou-nan.
「本人雖去世，但他的門生故舊、兒女家人倘若在世，下筆時終究不能秉筆直書，仍不符合歷史學家『求真』的最高理念」，王壽南指出。