Moral examination, as a special perspective, is conducive to deeper analyses and construction of moral theory and practice. Only moral education can train and bring up people of morality.

This author attempts to place "Orientation crisis" in the perspective of "Identity crisis" for examination, with a view to unfolding a new aspect for reflection on Chinese modernity.

A previous novel, in Dubious battle, was an examination of earlier Labour battles, but he wrote of that book: "I wanted to achieve a kind of detached perspective."