"Real historians have always been a lonely breed," observes Wang Shou-nan. Compared with the raucous fashion for biographies, doesn't the historians 'lonely, cool and distant approach provoke one to even deeper thought?
「真正的歷史學者，本來就是寂寞的」，王壽南指出。相較於一片喧鬧的傳記風潮，歷史學者的寂寞冷靜、保持距離，可能更讓人深思吧？