How to evaluate Tang Degang?

The general impression of people who have read Tang Degang is that there is not much "dry goods" left except the wanton Wang Yang style and playful brushwork. Some people also lamented that if history is regarded as something to talk about after dinner, why do I still need you in Tang Degang? Generally speaking, Tang Degang's greatest advantage is his fluent writing style, but if he is too fluent, he will become glib. Writing an article in his later years refers to beggars and Zhou, and the depth of the article is hard to say.

Tang Degang claimed to be a disciple of Hu Shi, but anyone who wrote a biography of Hu Shi devoted a chapter to defending his "shallow" public impression. If future generations give Tang Degang a biography, will they also open a chapter for his "imprecise history"? After CCTV's Lecture Room became popular in China, many people thought of Tang Degang and thought that Tang Degang was a "genius storyteller" and "the only thrill of Lecture Room". If he were alive, he wouldn't be a storyteller like Yi Zhongtian.

Overseas, Tang Degang appeared as a patriot. For example, he criticized Hu Shi: Hu Shi, who served as the ambassador to the United States in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, was "fishing for shrimps and missing crops" because Ambassador Hu at that time was supposed to strive for more international assistance for the authorities, but he made empty democratic remarks everywhere. Finally, he can't be an ambassador. In addition, when Tang Degang was the president of Columbia University, he drastically cut the original courses by half, and set up more than a dozen sub-aesthetics courses unprecedented in the history of American education, such as the history of Asian American immigration, the study of American political and legal system and the adaptation of Asian immigrants, the cultural conflict of Asian American, and the selected readings of Asian American literature, which have been ignored by foreign historians for hundreds of years. This is also a historic contribution.