The fact that two historians inspired by Biographical Literature can have reached such radically different conclusions about Zhang testifies to the fact that the magazine has never sought monolithic uniformity, but all sides of every story. Shen Lu-hsun, a former ROC representative to the US, claims that many American diplomats and generals were green with envy when they heard that Taiwan has such a magazine.
一部「傳記」造就兩位史學研究者，卻有完全相反的結論，更可見「傳記」的治史面向並非定於一尊，難怪前駐美代表沈履巡說，美國有些外交官、將領聽說台灣有這樣一本雜誌，都羨慕得不得了。