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Horizontal relationship between soldiers and village people shown in the movie enabled us to discover director’s will to pursue an invisible imagined community through the movie and the village is forming a place of communication for the general public who dream a new world for an ethnic group through it. Also, the novel 『BianCheng』shows pure and simple appearance of Miáozú(苗族) by forming an ideal world named ‘chátóng(茶峒): tea village’ as a manifestation of author‘s patriotism, expressing the author’s will to recover invisible horizontal relationship throughout the war-torn China jumping over Xiāngxī(湘西) area. Evaluating him simply as a revivalist, purist or pacifist is no more than a very glimpse evaluation of his world of art works. Shen congwen‘s will to pursue such an imagined community introduced in this thesis is not reflected in a variety of evaluations on his work. Thus, this thesis inquired into the possibility of his will toward an imagined ethnic community by comparing through a Korean movie.