This paper focuses on the internalization of the national spirit in Tiger Cliff written by Li Genquan who was the representative Chinese Ethnic Korean writer of the first generation appeared in the 1950s. Compared with Jin Xuetie who appeared at the same time but was evaluated as the master of the Chinese Ethnic Koreans' literature, although Li Genquan was active in the creation and left a lot of works, he couldn't draw the attention of the Ethnic Korean academics. The main reason was that as an influential local leader of the Communist Party of China, Li Genquan not only faithfully enforced the various politics and culture policy but also strove for incorporating the literary works with the mainstream of Chinese society, which were reflected from his works. The criticism and the indifference from the Ethnic Korean academics were the results of his consciousness of "Party Centralism" which was out of tune with the national consciousness.
However, this paper indicates that standing on the Chinese political reality and Yanbian's situation in the early 1960s, considering about Li Genquan's political experience and his novels which drew materials from the Ethnic Koreans' history, the one-sidedness of the above evaluation can be found. The major theme of the novel Tiger Cluff written by Li Genquan in the early 1960's was that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, Ethnic Koreans highly united to defeat the reactionary of Nationalist Party and finally got the thorough liberation, which definitely adhered to the "Party Centralism" and "Directivity of China", but the works at the same internalized Ethnic Koreans' history of their struggles even the history of Ethnic Koreans in China. In the early 60s, national problems were prohibited in political reality of Yanbian area. So Li Genquan's courage could only be explained by his national consciousness and his subject consciousness. Spreading out the national history under the leadership of Party and establishing the position in the big frame of country were probably called "internalization" of national consciousness. This kind internalization of national consciousness was the way of living which chose the Chinese Ethnic Koreans including Li Genquan, meanwhile chosen by them after National Independence. This paper discusses the way of "internalization" of national consciousness and national consciousness with this kind of "internalization" embodied in the Li Genquan's novel Tiger Cliff. Li Genquan's novel Tiger Cliff published in the early 60s did not simply express the policy of Party and the education of national history but finally pointed to the establishment of Ethnic Koreans' national rights.