在中国古代文学研究领域中，散文相对其它文体，其研究是比较薄弱的，而明清散文研究，尤其薄弱。晚明小品在中国古代散文史上有独特地位，而且对ZO世纪中国文坛和读书界也产生了深远而复杂的影响。但长期以来学界对晚明小品的关注更多地停留在选注工作和对个别作家作品的研究 In the field of ancient Chinese literature, the study of prose is relatively weak compared with other literary styles, but the study of prose in the Ming and Qing Dynasties is especially weak. Late Ming sketch has a unique position in the history of ancient Chinese prose and it has also had a profound and complicated impact on the literary world of China in the ZO century. For a long time, however, academics have paid more attention to the late Ming dynasty sketches and have concentrated more on the research on the selective betting work and the works of individual writers