China Times deputy editor-in-chief Su Teng-chi, who was a favorite disciple of Liu Shao-tang's, stresses that in the past autobiographical writings and memoirs were generally dismissed as "one-sided accounts." But Liu did not subscribe to this view. He believed that it is only with the help of these previously ignored autobiographical materials left behind by ordinary people that the true face of history gradually appears.
中國時報副總編輯、也是劉紹唐愛徒的蘇墱基特別提及，過往自傳或回憶錄的文章，都被視為是「片面之辭」，而劉紹唐並不這麼認為，他以為透過這些被忽略的市井小民所留下的傳記資料，才能一步步浮現出歷史的真相。