Abstract:The History of the Yi Contemporary Literature is the first book on the research of the history of the Yi contemporary literature. It describes the historical development of the literary genres of the Yi contemporary literature. This paper tries to study it′s literary viewpoint, which contains three aspects: literature in the ethnic language, the highlight of the characteris ̄ tics of ethnic art and culture, and nationalization of the essence of foreign literature. One of this paper′s goals is to preserve the national characteristics of the ethnic literature in the context of the world literature during the progress of globalization.