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In this paper, as part of the study of Li Xiaoshi's literature, his masterpiece Boundless Blue Sky (1941) is treated as the research object. Boundless Blue Sky is Li's second novel after his novel Pot (1939) which contains Harbin exotic flavors against Chinese modern historical background. So far, almost all researchers, more or less, have analyzed the relationship between his exotic style and his thought involved in having a servile attitude to foreign things in Li's novels. However, the author in this paper tries to avoid above issues which have been hotly discussed because of the following two reasons: one is that the author wants to adhere to her previous lines of research focusing on Chinese factor reflected in Korea modern novels. After many years of research in this field, based on 18 papers that have been published, the author is confident enough to form so-called “my own research routes”. The other reason is that the author thinks modern Chinese literature and Korean literature share a common background and circle of life. It is meaningful to distill Chinese cultural factors from those Korean works and this kind of research method has provided the author a very broad comparative research field. This paper centers on the study of two Chinese cultural factors in Boundless Blue Sky: the first one is “slow culture” which also can be called a part of the Chinese people's life. The cultural essence is immersed in China's popular life. It is not uncommon in Li Xiaoshi's novels. The second is the scene of Harbin Central Avenue which appears frequently in the works.The author believes that the westernized phenomenon of Harbin Central Avenue is a kind of inertial thinking, a kind of biased consciousness caused by worshiping western thought. It is regarded as author’s creative thinking to change the research angle. Although Li Xiaoshi had not lived in China for a very long time, he accepted Chinese culture and was deeply influenced by Chinese culture. Therefore, it is very common to find the characters in his works referring to Chinese culture, especially the "slow culture" in China. In addition to these two aspects, diverse Chinese culture can be perceived in Boundless Blue Sky, such as the lottery culture in all ages, beggars, Chinese mahjong, etc.. Because of the limited space of this paper, these researches need to be done in the future.