As a conscious literary criticism,''Modernism and the Oriental'' studies originated in the 1980s and 1990s.Its aim was to explore the relationship between the Orient and Western Modernism through analyzing the Oriental images and thought in modernist works.In 20th century modernist studies,it was often overlooked that the formation and development of modernism was also influenced by the Orient.Critics began to demonstrate the influence of the Orient on Western Modernism in the 1990s,and opened up a new perspective in East-West studies based on a critique of Said's Orientalism.The dominant features of this initial study are as follows: the research category mainly focused on the influence of the Far East countries,especially China and Japan,on Western Modernism；the research target was to explore and disclose the influence of particular authors,works or techniques on individual modernists' perspectives；the research goal was to display dialogues between modernists like Pound and Williams with the great Chinese poets like Li Bai,Wang Wei and Bai Juyi through missionaries and Sinologues like H.A.Giles,Arthur Waley and Ernest Fenollosa.With the convening of international conferences of ''Modernism and the Orient'' and the publication of relevant literary works and articles,current studies promote and develop methodology,awareness,focus and boundary.It contains the following features: conducting cultural studies of Western Modernism based on the history of Western acceptance of the Orient；revealing East and West assimilation in modernist poetics；focusing on the modernist reconstruction beyond East and West；and expressing a sense of transcendence in interpreting the Oriental elements.