馬華文學經歷了近百年的發展歷程，因此也產生了不少文學史著述。有些完整，有些局部。有些是文類史，有些則是帶有文學史意味的選集或大系。在這些眾多文學史著述中，要數方修的文學史最為完整與系統，當然也最受學術界所爭議。本文擬以文獻比較的方法，從四個方面即文學史的發端、分期、史觀及文學史的寫作方法去歸納與總結到目前為止的文學史著述之間的異同，以及判斷個別文學史著述的特長與不足，並提出未來的文學史著述所應該走的方向與路線。

Malaysian Chinese Literature has been developed and progressed for near to hundred years, therefore produced quite a numbers of literary histories work in the past, some was completed history, and some was focused in certain part of history. There were also histories of certain genre or anthology which contain history significant. In all these works, Fang Xiu’s one was considered to be the most completed and systematic, of cause arise to be the most disputable work as well. This paper employs textual comparative method to survey the different works in History of Malaysian Chinese Literature from four aspects, namely the beginning of history, the division of different periods, the perspective of history and the writing methods. Besides conclude the present achievement on present history works, this paper also suggest some new perspectives and strategies to the future writings.