1930年代,由于民族危机日益严峻,从政府到民间,开发西北,巩固边防的呼声不断高涨。在救亡图存的民族主义意识形态的激励下,大批的内地知识分子纷纷深入西北地区考察游历,之后大量的西北的记述公之于世。在这些考察家的旅行记述中,西北的辉煌历史和广袤土地成为寄托民族感情的独特载体,西北被作为一种特殊的地理空间纳入具有共同情感与集体记忆的象征空间。在对西北异域的风俗人情等情况的真实描写和由衷赞美中,考察家们把西北和内地建构为国家的统一认识,完成从“他者”到“自我”的历史想象和国家建构。 In the 1930s, due to the increasingly serious national crisis, the calls for the development of the northwest and for the consolidation of frontier defense have been continuously rising from the government to the private sector. Inspired by the nationalistic ideology of saving the nation and saving the nation, a large number of mainland intellectuals went deep into the northwestern region to study the travels. Afterwards, a large number of northwestern accounts were made public. In the travel accounts of these expatriates, the glorious history and extensive land in the northwest have become unique carriers of national feelings. As a special geographical space, the northwest has become a symbolic space with common feelings and collective memories. In the true description and heartfelt praise of the customs and habits of Northwest China and other countries, the inspectors constructed the unified understanding of the Northwest and the Mainland as the nation and completed the historical imagination and the state from the “other” to the “self” Constructed.