[Gutenberg 48788] • On a Chinese Screen
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- Authors
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Tags
- w. somerset (william somerset) , maugham , classics , 1874-1965 -- travel -- china , china -- description and travel , english -- 20th century -- biography , travel , authors
- ISBN
- 9780749304249
- Date
- 1922-03-08T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.15 MB
- Lang
- en
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. Somerset Maugham, who travelled over a thousand miles up the Yangtse river, used his acerbic and insightful notes to write this fascinating book.