At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance 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 Moulin Rouge cabaret built in Paris in 1889. It portrays two dancers dancing the can-can in the middle of the crowded dance hall. A recently discovered inscription by Toulouse-Lautrec on the back of the painting reads: "The instruction of the new ones by Valentine the Boneless." This means that the man to the left of the woman dancing, is
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,