Hsieh, however, has transcended his personal biases and simply gives a description of events and of the various views and ideas of people from the time when history was actually unfolding. Thus the book is of great academic value.
然而謝漢儒卻跳脫了個人的意見，只保留史料的敘述與歷史發生時的各方意見與看法，深具學術研究價值。