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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.It is a series of short sketches Maugham made during a trip along the Yangtze River in 1919–1920, and although ostensibly about China the book is equally focused on the various westerners he met during the trip and their struggles to accept or adapt to the cultural differences they encounter, which are often as enormous and as alienating as the ...
- W. Somerset Maugham
- 1922
Apr 25, 2015 · About this eBook. Author. Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Title. On a Chinese Screen. Credits. Produced by Dianna Adair, zsak and the Online Distributed. Proofreading Team at http: //www.pgdp.net (This file was. produced from images generously made available by The.
- W. Somerset Maugham
- 1922
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.
Nov 6, 2009 · On a Chinese screen by Maugham, W. Somerset, (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Publication date 1922 Publisher New York, George H. Doran company Collection cornell ...
Nov 28, 2006 · On a Chinese screen by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Publication date 1922 Publisher London : Heinemann Collection robarts; toronto Contributor
The two Chinese gentlemen, smiling, look at them with soft eyes. Rude boys cry out at the foreigner in a shrill and scornful voice. The city wall, crumbling, old and crenellated, looks like the city wall in an old picture of some Palestinish town of the Crusaders. You pass through the gateway into a narrow street lined with shops: many of them ...
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