陈之遴（1605-1666）属于清初流人中极具历史特征的一个类别——贰臣流人。本书悬置了史学和文学的现代学科分野，基于贰臣和流人这两个特殊身份探寻了陈之遴的行为史和心态史，揭示了贰臣流人这一特定人群与社会和地理的关系。在行为史方面，本书考察了陈之遴的仕宦行为与家族、明朝及南明政权、清朝政权之间的互动关系。其中考证了海宁渤海陈氏家族地位、“杨嗣昌夺情”事件、陈祖苞案始末、陈之遴“鸩父”真相、陈之遴与黄道周的关系、陈之遴在南明弘光政权的困境、陈之遴降清始末、陈之遴在清朝屡获超擢的历史背景和个人政绩、顺治朝重要党争案件、黄膘李三案始末、吴良辅案始末及顺治皇帝晚期的一些问题等历史细节，也分析了顺治朝内监势力在中央权力分布图中的异军突起过程、“南党”汉臣内部成员之间由于地位的频变在交结心理和行为方面出现的微妙变化等历史现象。在心态史方面，本书考察了陈之遴不同历史时期的心态变迁，重点关注了陈之遴的三种生命体验：一是流寓辽东后面对边地生存空间对心态的强烈挤压，其对自己的行为和心理所作出的保护性调适。二是其在明亡时、仕清初、流徙后等不同时段的兴亡之感和亡国之悲所表现出的渐进性和复杂性。三是其在明亡时、仕清初、流徙后等不同时段的仕路之悔与叛明仕清这一政治伦理之间的关联性。

Chen zhi (1605-1666) is one of the most historical characteristics of the early qing dynasty. Book suspension of modern history and literature discipline division, based on ErChen and shed the two special identity for the recruitment of Chen behavior history and mental history, reveals the ErChen flow this specific population and social, and geographical relations. In the aspect of behavioral history, this book examines the relationship between the official and official ACTS of Chen and the interaction between the family, the Ming dynasty and the nanming regime and the qing dynasty. Which examines haining bohai Chen family status, "Yang Sichang seize the love" event, Chen Zu bract of recruitment of beginning and end of the case, Chen "father" zhenniao truth, the relationship between recruitment and Huang Daozhou Chen, recruitment of Chen Ming is creating regime in dilemma, the recruitment of drop of the beginning and end of the qing dynasty, Chen Chen of recruitment in the qing dynasty award-winning ChaoZhuo historical background and personal achievement, shunzhi dynasty important dispute cases, the beginning and end of the beginning and end of the yellow fat SanAn lee, the Wu Liangfu case and the emperor shunzhi late some of the problems such as historical details, also analyzed the shunzhi itself forces of the prison in the central power distribution in the process of emerging, "south party" han because status between the members of the princes of the chatter of subtle changes in making psychological and behavioral aspects such as historical phenomenon. In terms of mental history, the book examines the mentality change the recruitment of the different historical period, Chen focused on the recruitment of Chen's three life experience: one is LiuYu liaodong face after the strong compression from the rimland living space of mentality, for their own behavior and psychology of protective adjustment. The second is the gradual and complexity of the feeling of the rise and fall of different periods and the sadness of the state of the country. Third, the relationship between the political ethics and the political ethics of the shi lu in the different periods of the Ming and the qing dynasty, the early qing dynasty and the post-migration period.