[1] Linh D. Vu of Arizona State University described the book as "a counter-narrative to" pro-CKS revisionist history.
[2] Coble did extensive research in Hoover Institution's archival materials in making this book.
Soong,[3] Coble also drew on such earlier studies as The Inflationary Spiral: The Experience in China: 1939–1950 by Chang Kia-ngau and China’s Wartime Finance and Inflation by Arthur N. Young, both based on the experiences of the authors as advisors to the Chinese government at the time.
[3] Chapter 2 describes Kung and Soong,[3] as well as their conflict with one another to gain supremacy in the ROC government.
[2] Harold Tanner of the University of North Texas wrote that the reasoning that the military was harmed by hyperinflation "is convincing" and that the author's concept that betrayal came because of that same complex "is consistent with the evidence.