On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham

"On a Chinese Screen" by W. Somerset Maugham is a travel book published in 1922. Based on Maugham's journey along the Yangtze River in 1919–1920, this collection of short sketches captures life in China through fifty-eight vignettes. While ostensibly about China, the book focuses equally on the Westerners Maugham encountered—examining their struggles to accept or adapt to enormous cultural differences as alienating as the country itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965
Title On a Chinese Screen
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_Chinese_Screen
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Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject China -- Description and travel
Subject Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Subject Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 -- Travel -- China
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EBook-No. 48788
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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