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On a Chinese Screen

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| Paperback | 9780099289500

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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 coun Continue

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. A series of acute and finely crafted sketches of Westerners who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, army officers and company managers are all gently ridiculed as they persist obliviously with the life they know

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 160 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0099289504
  • ISBN-13: 9780099289500
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish date: 2000-07-06
  • Dimensions: 198 mm x 129 mm x 11 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover , Softcover , Others , eBook
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