In 1983, he began what was to become a decade of work on his own 72-volume colloquial translation of the classic Zizhi Tongjian (" History as a Mirror ").
出獄後，柏楊繼續寫作。1983 年開始譯寫《柏楊版資治通鑑》，到 1993 年共出版 72 冊。