Walking On The Fringe Of The History

New Historical Novel is a content which have a spacious range. It concludes all the novels that get materials from the history but different from the traditional historical novels written after 1986.For a long time, the historical novels are always covered with a kind of political color. To dispel it, almost all the New Historical Novels keep on the fringe of the politics in the Historical Ideas and Narrative Tactics. The result is that New Historical Novel is far from politics and returns to aesthetics. At the same time, it goes beyond of the range of the historical novel. Finally it becomes an imitation of the historical novel.This kind of novel appears with the change of the situation in China and the shift of people's aesthetic psychology. New Historism and Postmodernism also influence them. By the tactics far from politics, they acquire some outstanding achievements, but also they have some obvious limits. In a sense, New Historical Novel successes and fails both because of this kind of position and tactics.We look forward that the New Historical Novel can overcomes its limits and obtain new development ,after absorbing the advances of the traditional historical novels according to the Marx' ideas about humanity.