As for the reader, this book (in the words of Mr. Ho's second daughter Hsia Tsu-li) constitutes "a history of the development of Taiwanese society over the past 30 years."
對於讀者來說，這部大書正像何凡先生的二女兒夏祖麗所說「是一部近卅年來台灣社會的發展史」。