In writing his memoirs, which could be titled the "The Human Progress File," Bo Yang has not only held firm to his personal memories, he has gone further to dig through three thousand years of Chinese history, describing oppressive regimes and the opposition to them, so as to lessen the chances of tyranny's reappearance.
柏楊先生不但堅持他的記憶，寫下了這本「人類進化檔案」的回憶錄，更挖掘中國過去三千來的記憶，為暴政及反暴政留下或喚起新的記憶，使暴政死灰復燃的機會更為減少。