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On a Chinese Screen, also known as On a Chinese Screen: Sketches of Life in China, is a travel book by W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1922.
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Travel
- 1922
- English
25 de abr. de 2015 · ON A CHINESE SCREEN I THE RISING OF THE CURTAIN You come to the row of hovels that leads to the gate of the city. They are built of dried mud and so dilapidated that you feel a breath of wind will lay them flat upon the dusty earth from which they have been made. A string of camels, heavily laden, steps warily past you.
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- W. Somerset Maugham
- English
- 1922
- On a Chinese Screen
Maugham’s ‘On a Chinese Screen’, first published in 1922, contains 58 vignettes on 152 pages from the perspective of an Englishman (presumably Maugham) traveling through China. The majority of these vignettes describe the circumstances of foreigners living in China in the 1910’s.
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3 de ago. de 2010 · In the resulting collection we encounter Western missionaries, army officers and company managers who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Maugham...
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Maugham Spent The Winter Months Of 1919-20 Travelling 1500 Miles Up The Yangtze River. Always More Interested In People Than Places He Gave Full Rein To A Sensitive And Philosophical Nature: On A Chinese Screen Is The Refined Accumulation Of The Countless Scraps Of Paper On Which He Had Taken Notes.
