王国维曾说:“诗人对宇宙人生须入乎其内,又须出乎其外。”这个原则也同样适用于史家。美籍华人学者黄仁宇的《万历十五年》,以一五八七年为切面,从“中国二千年来,以道德代替法制,至明代而极”这一根本症结入手,既解剖了个别历史人物,更通过个别人物解剖了整个社会。真正做到了能入能出。 Wang Guowei once said: “The poet must take care of everything in his life in the universe, and he must go beyond that.” This principle applies equally to historians. The Chinese-American scholar Huang Renyu’s “Wanli Fifteen Years” takes the one in 1887 as the starting point. Starting with the fundamental crux of “China has replaced the rule of law in two thousand years with morals to the extreme in the Ming Dynasty,” he not only dissected the individual Historical figures, but also dissected the entire community through individual figures. Truly able to enter.