A trilogy set in Jiangnan that traces memory, desire, and the transformation of a local community through three linked novels. Its poetic, experimental prose turns regional change into a study of identity and historical memory.

Three linked novels turn the shifting landscape of Jiangnan into a study of memory and identity.

A long novel about the relationship between place and the individual, memory and history, set against the changing lives of contemporary Chinese society. It focuses on how ordinary people live through social transformation.

A portrait of everyday lives shaped by memory, history, and social change.

The concluding novel of Li Peifu’s Plains Trilogy, it portrays regional change and the fate of individuals and families. The novel centers on the clash between rural life and urbanization, memory, and the texture of everyday survival.

A novel about people who carry the weight of the plain on their shoulders.

A polyphonic Shanghai novel written largely in Shanghainese, following the city’s transformations, ordinary lives, and generational tensions. Its dialect-rich prose recreates the texture of local speech and urban memory.

Shanghai comes alive through the rhythm of dialect and memory.

A novel of moral ambiguity and desire, set in a small-city world where violence and obsession steadily tighten the plot. It examines how individual fates are shaped by guilt, history, and the fragility of human relationships.

Violence and desire tighten around a city where nobody stays innocent for long.