Wei Wei,by mild means of narration,takes great pain to build up the life course and devotes herself to explore the awkward living predicament in her novellas which are,in the Age of Lusts,the reflection and understanding of the very nature of life existence,and are the query of the ways of life.

There are no writers better than Mao Dun at describing people s pursuit of material desire in modern literature history.

This novel focuses on the evil aspects in humanity and describes various ugly phenomena that may exist in the human society to probe into the weakness of human beings, then try to find its source--material desires, which uncover the enigma of the human existance.