1971年的夏天是作家李子胜近年来故事的精品选集，约收录40篇作品，题材驳杂，风格多样，举凡官场生态、人性探微、市井人生、乡野风情、历史钩沉，皆涉笔成趣，或深沉或犀利，或诙谐或凝重，或沧桑或诗意，既有人性的反诘，又有世相的叹喟。(Summer of 1971 is a selective anthology of writer Li Zisheng's recent stories, which included about 40 works, with heterogeneous themes and diverse styles, ranging from officialdom, exquisite humanity exploration, marketplace life, romance of countryside to history memories, all writing in either a funny style, or deep or sharp, or humorous or solemn, or vicissitudinous or poetic, with both counter-questioning of humanity, and sigh to the ways of the world.)