《江南三部曲》是从上世纪九十年代末开始构思的。当时打算用地方志的结构和方式,延续现代主义的表现方法,描述一百多年来的中国近现代社会。但我一方面对过去的写作方式产生了疑虑,同时也觉得在一本书中概括一百年的历史实在过于困难,所以就有了写作三部曲的念头。到二○○三年前后动笔写作时,大致的结构和框架就已经定型 The “Jiangnan Trilogy” was conceived from the late 1990s. At that time, it was intended to use the structure and method of local chronicles to continue the performance method of modernism and describe the modern Chinese society over a hundred years ago. However, on the one hand, I have doubts about the past writing style. At the same time, I feel that it is too difficult to sum up one hundred years of history in a book. Therefore, I have the idea of ​​a writing trilogy. By the year 2003, when writing, the general structure and framework have been finalized