Liu remembers clearly that his old school president was invited to speak at National Normal University in 1953, and talked for 90 minutes on the subject "Biographical Literature." Hu emphasized that "In 2500 years of Chinese literature, the most undeveloped form is biographical writing."
劉紹唐還清楚記得，老校長在民國四十二年應邀到師大演講，以「傳記文學」為題講了足足九十分鐘，一再強調：「二千五百年來中國文學最缺乏最不發達的，就是傳記文學。」