Abstract: Shen Congwen’s vivid personal experience of the national humiliation during the period of Shanghai concession makes him embark on identifying himself as a Miao ethnic identity by creating numerous folk novels when he was in Beijing.He rationally realized that he had “rediscovered” the “essential identity”.He restored his Miao descent which once clouded its history,held a positive attitude towards his identity and pushed his stance to the forefront of history.His works center on memories of Miao history,folklore,fairy tales,religious activities,folk songs of love and marriage,hunting,dragon boat races,venomous insects,vicious magic,Luo Dong and other folk customs.His works also contribute to restructuring ethnic cultures of Miao people being kind,virtuous,pure and honest,creating the cognition of collective memory for the whole nationality and fulfilling the acknowledgement of the imaginative construction of the great Chinese nation.

Key words: concession, concession colonial discourse, the imagination of nation state, Shen Congwen