Gulliver's Travels (miniseries) was said that he went abroad. The film ends in a scene of Gulliver and his family, whom he has grown to love once more, and shares what he is now as a person. The miniseries was generally well received by critics. Ken Tucker of "Entertainment Weekly" wrote that, "Everything about this production is surprising, from its choice of Gulliver—"Cheers"' Ted Danson in an excellent wig—to its startling fidelity to Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel," and called it "a big, gaudy, funny production that feels free to give full reign to Swift's blithe vulgarity." Gulliver's Travels (miniseries) Gulliver's Travels is a
The Travels of Lao Can change attitudes towards women, and engage in philosophical discussions about China's future. Within portions of the novel Lao Can acts as a detective in several small crime-related plots. Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, author of "Fiction from the End of the Empire to the Beginning of the Republic (1897-1916)", wrote that the integration of the detective subplots, "entirely dissimilar to its lyrical components," "makes the novel so innovative." Referring to the use of poetry and symbolism in "Travels of Lao Can", Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, author of "Fiction from the End of the Empire to the Beginning of the Republic (1897-1916)", wrote that "What sets