哈佛大學教授韓南讚揚本書為「中國當代短篇小說的最高成就」。

亨利‧米勒形容白先勇為「描劃人物的大師」。書中各名篇，曾被翻譯成法、德、意、荷、希伯來、日、韓等多國語文，風靡無數讀者。

Widely acclaimed as a classic of contemporary fiction in Chinese, Taipei People has been frequently compared to James Joyce''s Dubliners. Patrick Hanan praises the volume as "the highest achievement in the contemporary Chinese story." Henry Miller considers Pai Hsien-yung "a master of portraiture." Stories from this collection have already been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean.