In comparison, the Institute of Modern History at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing has produced only eight volumes in its Mini-Biographies of the Republican Era, carrying the stories of only 482 people. This is why T.K. Tong, a historian living in the US, declared that Liu Shao-tang was "single-handedly the equal of a nation."
相較之下，北京中國社科院近史所《民國人物小傳》迄今僅出八冊，傳主四百八十二人，因此旅美史家唐德剛盛讚劉紹唐是「以一人敵一國」。