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Apr 25, 2015 · Read or download this free eBook by W. Somerset Maugham, a classic travel writer who captures the essence of China in the early 20th century. Explore the contrast between the exotic and the ordinary, the old and the new, in his vivid descriptions and observations.
May 3, 2017 · Learn how W. Somerset Maugham wrote his travel book On a Chinese Screen based on his six-month trip to China in 1919. Discover how he portrayed the contrast between Eastern and Western cultures, and the expatriates who struggled to adapt to the foreign land.
ON A CHINESE SCREEN is a sequence of remarkable vignettes of Europeans residents in China just after the First World War -Westerners culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation.
Aug 3, 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...
Maugham presents, in a sequence of vignettes the extraordinary range of European types resident in China during his travels there between 1919 and 1920. The book, which shows Westerners out of...
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...
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.
