Abstract: From the perspectives of the “gaze” and the “be gazed”, this paper tries to explain why the Chinese contemporary fiction has encountered the “Orientalized Gaze” when translating into foreign languages. Specifically speaking, ideology, poetics and narrative themes are the three main reasons for this situation and there are positive as well as negative influences of this phenomenon. From the main comments of the western media, we can get a global picture of the reception of the Chinese contemporary fiction in the West today. Furthermore, we can see that in the new historical background, the western readers' understanding of the Chinese contemporary fiction is changing, which embodies the importance of the historical context for readers' reception of the Chinese contemporary literary works.