《孔子家语》是《论语》之外最详细记录孔子与弟子言行思想的典籍，在孔子思想与儒学史研究方面具有重要价值。从唐代开始逐渐形成的真伪争论，影响了它的地位和价值判断，又经过宋代的疑古思潮，其真伪争论直至近代未曾停歇。随着上世纪70年代考古材料的出土，“伪书”说占据主流的局面被打破，当代学者从“伪书”说的生成、《孔子家语》的流传等角度深入辨析，逐渐正本清源，拨开迷雾。马金亮新著《魏晋南朝东海王氏研究》对王肃“伪作”《孔子家语》公案进行系统学术史梳理与探讨，是从家族角度研究王肃经学的最新成果。《家语》之“伪”，属于历史的产物，体现早期文献层累的形成方式，同时与疑古思潮具有直接关联。

“The Family Sayings of Confucius” is the most detailed classic record of the words,deeds and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples apart from The Analects of Confucius,and it holds significant value in the study of Confucian thought and the history of Confucianism. The debate over its authenticity,which began to take shape in the Tang Dynasty,has affected its status and value judgment. Further fueled by the ancient-text skepticism trend in the Song Dynasty,this controversy persisted until modern times. With the excavation of archaeological materials in the 1970s,the mainstream view that regarded it as a “forged text” was broken. Contemporary scholars have conducted in-depth analysis from the perspectives of the origin of the “forged text”theory and the circulation of The Family Sayings of Confucius,gradually clarifying the facts and dispelling the doubts. Ma Jinliang's new work A Study of the Wang Clan of Donghai During the Wei,Jin and Southern Dynasties systematically sorts out and discusses the academic controversy over Wang Su's alleged “forgery” of The Family Sayings of Confucius,representing the latest achievement in the study of Wang Su's Confucian classics from a clan perspective. The so-called “forgery” of The Family Sayings of Confucius is a product of history,reflecting the cumulative formation mode of early documents and bearing a direct connection with the ancienttext skepticism trend.