Sun Kuo-tung, a historian from Hong Kong, published an article in the Ming Bao Monthly entitled "A Translation That Does Not Understand the Original--Evaluating the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Po Yang Edition." He pointed out errors in Po Yang's translations in terms of perspective, interpretation, and definitions of characters. The position of that article stood clearly distant from Po Yang's.
香港歷史學家孫國棟就在「明報月刊」發表「一本不瞭解原著的譯作﹘﹘評柏楊版資治通鑑」一文，指出柏楊的譯述在立場、觀點、文字上的錯誤，觀念與柏楊大相逕庭。