一本不该被忽视的史著——《马阁老洗冤录》

近人姚大荣所著《马阁老洗冤录》一书,旨在为马士英翻案。囿于成见,学界长期以来忽视其存在,乃至视而不见。笔者仔细研读全书,认为此书亦不乏值得今人学习和借鉴之处。但是它最大的不足就是臆断过多。本文主要介绍该书的内容,讨论其史学价值,以期引起有关治史者的相应注意;同时对书中的一些重要观点予以评析,希望能借此对马士英这一历史人物做出更全面更客观的认识和评价,并推进相关的研究。

Ma Ge Lao Xi Yuan Lu-A Book That Should not be Ignored

Ma Ge Lao Xi Yuan Lu written by Yao-darong means to reverse case for Ma-shiying. Because of prejudice, academia had ignored its existence for a long time. After reading this book carefully, the author think that there are many things worthy of studying in this book. Of course, there are a lot of deficiencies. The most obvious defect is that there are too many assumptions but less of proofs. This article mainly introduce the content of this book, and discuss its history value in order to catch some historian's attention. Besides, some important viewpoints of this book are analyzed so as to evaluate this historical figure-Ma-shiying more comprehensively and objectively and promote relevant studies.