Their testimony is especially important because, for one thing, when the Communists won the Civil War, there was not enough time to bring many documents out of mainland China. Also, because of the Civil War, different political orientations have produced markedly different records and interpretations of the past. The publication of these oral histories can make a great contribution to historical studies.
一方面也是中國大陸淪陷，很多資料來不及帶出來；再者，國共內戰經年，政治上敵對之立場，對歷史事件常以截然不同的角度記述、詮釋，整理出來這些回憶錄、口述資料，對史學的研究會將很有貢獻。