Abstract: This article conducted a subversive discussion on the Xinjiang“New Frontier Poetry”that emerged in the 1980’s. Research on traditional frontier poetry was a topic from that of classical Chinese literature，therefore，a diachronic discussion on some editions of The History of Classical Chinese Literature published in the early Minguo period is indispensable. Furthermore，the Western pastoral poetry descriptive of typically bucolic scenes can be an opposite paradigm in this contrast. Through the definitions of“Pastoral Poetry”by Liu Dajie & Wolfgang Iser and the factor of“border wars”，the so-called Xinjiang“New Frontier Poetry”is defined as“Micro-Pastoral Poetry”and“Macro-Pastoral Poetry”；the former is mainly narrative，and the latter an expansion of the traditional idyllic pastoral poetry and therefore can be renamed as“The Xinjiang Mode of Pastoral Poetry”in this article. This article attempts to revise the mainstream conclusions in discussions on the history of contemporary Chinese poetry.

Key words: Xinjiang, pastoral poetry, frontier poetry, new frontier poetry, Zhou Tao, Yang Mu, Zhang Deyi