Abstract: Through analyzing Ding Ling‘s work “My Stay In Xia Village” and the ensuing polemics on it , this paper puts into order the sequence of development of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from the 1940s in Yanan to the late 1950s. And it also inquires into the most sensitive topics at that time ——the contradiction between individualism and collective identification, the creative principles for socialist realism and the female individual for identity.

Key words: individual existence, collective identification, social is trealism, female individual