Li Wenfang 
Abutilon Field 

This book is a new collection of medium-length novels written by Li Wenfang from Harbin. It includes 7 novels: Abutilon Field, the 13 Hi from Baotou, One Wife Two Husbands, Lao Huashi and Yan Zitou, the River Valley of Men, 24 Stones, and the Vanished Courier Station. These novels tell stories, portray characters, and at the same time, focus on the customs and culture of rural area in north China, which have disappeared or are vanishing, including people”s living style, environment and customs. And these local customs are interconnected with the era, society and life itself. This gives the novel a sense of history and contemporariness.Many of the details in the novel come from personal experience, which are fading away from the last century and shall be lost for ever. As for the folk festivals, celebrations and worship, the legacy of performing arts, and even the unique forms of family and marriage, which are described in the novel, are slowly fading away into the curtain of history, and cannot be recovered in reality. Fortunately, the writer happens to live in a transitional era between the old world and the new world, and he has personally experienced many things that have vanished or are vanishing at the moment. He wrote about these things in his novels diligently and faithfully so that contemporary people, especially future generations, can touch and feel the essence of the historical civilization when reading his novels, following the development of the storyline and experiencing the joys and sorrows of the characters.