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Original Title:	On a Chinese Screen
ISBN:	0099289504 (ISBN13: 9780099289500)

On A Chinese Screen

W. Somerset Maugham

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 332 Users | 39 Reviews

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Title	:	On A Chinese Screen
Author	:	W. Somerset Maugham
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	July 6th 2000 by Vintage Classics (first published March 8th 1922)
Categories	:	Cultural. China. Travel. Classics. Fiction. Short Stories

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Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper. 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 keenly observes, and gently ridicules, their dogged and oblivious persistence with the life they know.

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Ratings: 3.7 From 332 Users | 39 Reviews

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Rain:- This must have been terribly shocking to the hypocritical and pious while being nothing new to those without blinkers, when published first - 20th century was nothing if not one that shredded many such veils of pretension from established societies of west. The story takes place on a voyage in Pacific where a woman of certain profession is having fun along with a few of males around - after all being alone most of their lives far away from home was tough on the guys, and an accommodating

I enjoyed this book, but because it's not a story but rather vignettes from his travels to China about 100 years ago, each chapter stood alone and didn't flow with the rest. Maugham rarely identified where the story took place, although he mentioned cities like Shanghai, Hankow, and Ichang. The vignettes either were completely descriptive (of someone's home or a temple) or were about an expat (missionary, consul, taipan). Some of the more memorable chapters included one about a doctor who'd been

All I remember is the coolies, a word which has been disappeared for a long time in China. They are people, too.

I enjoyed the glimpses at China Maugham offers us. Living and having travelled around China, I can vividly imagine what Maugham saw with his own eyes. While in some parts the country is rapidly modernizing, in others it hasn't changed at all - the only things not to be found anymore are bound feet, opium dens, and coolies caring the rich in sedan chairs.

This book of "vignettes" took me ages to read! I bought this on my birthday from a shop in Rochester and put it down after a few weeks. They weren't even short stories, they were glimpses of the author's travels in China. Some were only a page or two, the longest was only five pages. They aren't engaging because they aren't even short stories, they are more like sketches of life, but I did find them beautiful and interesting pieces of Chinese culture at this time, around 1919-1920. As always,

I started reading W. Somerset Maugham's On a Chinese Screen on the journey back to Toronto from Niagara Falls. Here, the author presents a series of many vignettes about China, and what life was like there for Westerners. Each piece of the puzzle has been well informed, and whilst some entries are profoundly short, others are much longer character studies, and serve to balance the whole. I was not blown away by the collection, but it does feel rather insightful, and I will certainly be reading

An astonishingly good and perceptive writer. I enjoyed these tales of a vanished era immensely