如何在历史中理解和使用那些无名者的作品?无名者的自传体小说如何可以作为大历史的文献?通过这些无名者作品所呈现的,是什么样的近世中国社会的生活和心情?促使我思考这些问题的,是二○○二年王振忠先生在婺源发现的一部奇书,一个后世未必知名的徽商詹鸣铎的自传体小说《我之小史》。关于这部《我之小史》的内容和意义,在整理者的《代前言——徽商小说〈我之小史〉的发现及其学术意义》中已经说 How can we understand and use the works of those unknown people in history? How can the anonymous autobiographical novel serve as a document of history? What kind of modern Chinese society live and feel through these works of unknown persons? Promote me Thinking about these issues is an odd book discovered by Mr Wang Zhenzhong in Wuyuan in 2002, an autobiographical novel “My Little History”, which is not necessarily known by eminent merchants of the later Huizhou. As for the content and significance of this “Little History of Myself”, it has already been said in the editor’s “Preface to the Preface-the discovery of the novel of my childhood” and its academic significance