在近现代中国,由于建立现代民族国家的迫切需要将中国现代文学与民族国家想象紧密联系在一起,作为现代民族国家想象重要媒介的中国现代文学自然肩负着现代民族国家想象的重任。现代民族国家作为一种“想象的共同体”是中国现代作家参与民族国家想象的重要表意方式,同时赋予中国现代文学的现代性品格。民族国家主体的生成则有赖于西方“他者”的存在,为了应对西方的殖民主义带来的民族压迫和挑战而开始的一场民族国家历史的创 In modern China, due to the urgent need to establish a modern nation-state, modern Chinese literature is closely linked with the imagination of nation-states. As an important media of modern nation-state imagination, modern Chinese literature naturally shoulders the task of imagining modern nation states. As a “community of imagination”, the modern nation-state is an important way for Chinese modern writers to participate in the imagination of the nation-state. At the same time, it gives the modern character of Chinese modern literature. The formation of the nation-state subject depends on the existence of the West, the “otherness” and the history of a nation-state initiated in response to the ethnic oppression and challenges posed by Western colonialism