Take for example the treatment of Zhang Xueliang, architect of the Xi'an Incident. From 1970 to June of 1998, Biographical Literature had published 76 articles related to Zhang. In 1970, when it was still very sensitive to discuss Zhang, the magazine published an article asking: "Why did this man who once allied with the KMT to complete the reunification of the country instigate the Xi'an incident?"
以西安事變主角張學良的歷史功過來看，從一九七○到九八年六月，「傳記」一共刊載了七十六篇與張學良有關的文章，從張學良尚是個敏感名詞的一九七○年，就有關於「西安事變」前後張學良所扮演的角色的分析，當時曾經「起義來歸完成中國統一」的張學良為何要發動西安事變是探討重點。