Jonathan Swift responded with an attack on the Irish judiciary almost unparalleled in its ferocity, his principal target being the "vile and profligate villain" William Whitshed, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Also during these years, he began writing his masterpiece, "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships", better known as "Gulliver's Travels". Much of the material reflects his political experiences of the preceding decade. For instance, the episode in which the giant Gulliver puts out the Lilliputian palace fire by urinating on it can be
The Travels of Lao Can characters and events illustrate a "complex conservatism" that concludes that technology instead of social change is the answer to the problems experienced by China. Cordell D. K. Yee's review of "The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century", however, argues that "it is doubtful that all episodes conform" to the allegory concept. Robert E. Hegel, in a review of "The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century", argues that Holoch's interpretation is persuasive and "makes a substantial contribution to the studies of the novel". The Travels of Lao Can The Travels of Lao Can (, or "The Travels