Xinjiang Experience And Its Writing In Contemporary Works Of China

This paper studies the Xinjiang experience and its writing in the works between 1949 and 1999 by many contemporary writers, and reveals the delicate interaction between literature and the construction of the nation.The literary output of the 1950's and 1960's concentrated on the pleasure and happiness of the people of various ethnic groups in Xinjiang after the founding of the People's Republic of China and their praise of the Communist Party, leaders and socialist motherland.In the 1980's, China entered into the process of modernization and this exerted influences on literature of that period, namely, the primary concern of the writers focused on the individual living condition and mental world of various ethnic groups in Xinjiang The 1990's were a period of cultural transformation and reproduction. The literary writing of this period, full of poetic romance and "exotic" cultural sentiment, intensified the heterogeneous characteristic of the diversified culture in Xinjiang.The contemporary literary writings about Xinjiang are actually the "stories" of Xinjiang based on the comprehension, imagination and construction of the writers of the Han nationality through the "Other" images in their eyes, and these stories were thus adopted to identify various ethnic groups residing in Xinjiang and their mode of existence in the history.