《守望·追寻·创生:中国西部小说的历史形态与精神重构》一书由赵学勇、王贵禄合著,北京大学出版社2012年出版。该书以西部小说作为研究对象,是“一部系统研究中国西部小说的有分量的著作”。著者赵学勇先生一直持续关注西部文学,从90年代初开始,先后出版了《新文学与乡土中国——20世纪中国乡土文学与西部文学研究》(兰州大学出版社1993年版)、《文化与人的同构——论现代中国作家的艺术精神》(兰州大学出版社2000年版)、《革命·乡土·地域——中国当代西部小说史论》(中国人民 “Watch · Follower · Creation: History of Western China fiction and spiritual reconstruction,” a book by Zhao Xueyong, Wang Guilu co-authored, Peking University Press, 2012. The book to the Western novel as the object of study, is “a systematic study of China 's western novels ”. Author Zhao Xueyong has been continuing attention to the western literature, from the early 90s, has published “New Literature and Local China - 20th Century Chinese Literature and Western Literature Research” (Lanzhou University Press, 1993), “culture and human Isomorphism - On the Artistic Spirit of Modern Chinese Writers ”(Lanzhou University Press, 2000),“ Revolution, Local Area, History of Contemporary Chinese Fiction ”(Chinese people