Similar ideas are introduced in detail in books by mainland scholars, for example, Yang Kuisong's book A New Investigation of the Xi'an Incident and Zhang Kuitang's Biography of Zhang Xueliang and Epics of Crisis Recovery--The Xi'an Incident.
對這問題，大陸學者楊奎松的《西安事變新探》、張魁堂的《張學良傳》、《挽危救亡的史詩﹘ ﹘西安事變》等書，都有詳盡的介紹。