在中国历史上,“西部”永远是一个重要的命题。不论是地缘与政治的西部.还是文明与历史的西部.抑或是文化与艺术的西部。尤其是在19世纪下半叶到21纪初.西方列强借长枪烈炮的威慑,以探险或考古的名义从我国的新疆等西部地区进入中国.大肆掠夺文物。破坏文物,成为中华文物史上最黑暗最耻辱的记忆。其时.因“鲍尔写本”事件引发的盗掠敦煌“藏经洞”文物.为中同政府和民间保护中华艺术和文物提供了机缘。本文在检讨这样的文化历史背景的同时,通过西方探险家发现、盗取中国西部 In Chinese history, “western ” will always be an important proposition. Whether it is geopolitics and politics in the west, or civilization and history in the west, or culture and the arts in the west. Especially from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century, and the Western powers entered the country from the western regions of China, including Xinjiang, in the name of exploration or archeology by using the gunshot gun deterrence. Destroy cultural relics and become the darkest and shameful memory of the history of Chinese relics. In the meantime, the pilgrimage to Dunhuang and Tibetans by the “Bauer’s Writer” incident provided a chance for the government and civilians to protect Chinese art and cultural relics. This review of such a cultural and historical background at the same time, through Western explorers found that stolen Western China