《明季党社考》(以下简称《党社考》)是日本著名学者小野和子先生的一部力作。它的中译本已于2006年1月由上海古籍出版社出版。此书诚如它的译著者李庆先生在《前言》中所说“是一部从党争角度描述的晚明史”。它的一个显著特点是,对东林党虽然没有全景式和过程性的论述,但却澄 The study of the Ming Dynasty Party Society (hereinafter referred to as “the party society test”) is a masterpiece of Japanese famous scholar Ono Kazuyuki. Its Chinese translation was published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House in January 2006. This book, as its translator, Mr. Li Qing, said in the Foreword, is a late Ming history described from the perspective of the party struggle. One of its distinctive features is that although there is no panoramic and procedural argument on the part of the Donglin Party,