郭沫若在《十批判书·后记》中曾提到:约在一九四四年一月间,“我以偶然的机会得以读到清初的禁书《剿闯小史》的古抄本。明末农民革命的史实以莫大的力量引起了我的注意。适逢这一年又是甲申年,是明朝灭亡的三百周年纪念。”在这一年二月八日致翦伯赞的信中,郭沫若也提到这本书对他“甚引起趣 Guo Moruo mentioned in the Ten Criticisms and Postscripts: Around January 1944, ”I, by chance, could read the ancient codex copied from the Qing era’s banned books“ The historical facts of the peasant revolution caught my attention with tremendous force, coinciding with the 300th anniversary of the Ming dynasty coinciding with the anniversary of the Ming dynasty. ”" To Bodhisattva on February 8 of this year In the letter, Guo Moruo also mentioned that this book is very interesting to him