At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance Valentin le désossé, a well-known dancer at the Moulin Rouge, and he is teaching the newest addition to the cabaret. To the right, is a mysterious aristocratic women in pink. The background also features many aristocratic people such as poet Edward Yeats, the club owner and even Toulouse-Lautrec's father. The work is currently displayed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance At the Moulin Rouge, the Dance is an oil-on-canvas painted by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was painted in 1890, and is the second of a number of graphic paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting
The Travels of Lao Can in the late Qing period. The first 13 chapters were serialized in the bi-weekly "Xiuxiang Xiaoshuo" from March 1903 to January 1904, in issues 9 through 18. It was later printed in the "Tianjin Riri Xinwen Bao" in a 20 chapter version with a prologue included. In the prologue Lao Can (T: 老殘, S: 老残, P: "Lǎo Cán", W: "Lao Ts'an"; "Old Decrepit"), a traveling medical practitioner, dreams of China being a sinking ship. After the dream ends, Lao Can goes on a journey to fix the problems experienced by China. In the story Lao Can attempts to correct injustices,