He has a very individual view of Zhang Xueliang, and in place of an author's preface includes an essay entitled "The De bate on Zhang Xueliang's Role is Not Over," in which he assesses Zhang's life as a whole. In it he writes: "Zhang Xueliang's roller coaster career, from the extraordinary promise of his youthful years to his arrest, is full of contradictions and frustrations.
對於張學良實有其個人觀點，書中他以〈張學良功罪論未休〉為題撰文代替自序，縱論張氏一生，稱：「張學良的一生，從其頭角崢嶸至階下作囚，兔起鶻落，其間充滿著矛盾，也充滿無奈。