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Travel. Published. 1922 Heinemann. 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 ...
- W. Somerset Maugham
- 1922
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- W. Somerset Maugham
- English
- 1922
- On a Chinese Screen
3.72. 470 ratings69 reviews. 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.
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- I The Rising of The Curtain
- II My Lady's Parlour
- III The Mongol Chief
- IV The Rolling Stone
- V The Cabinet Minister
- Vi Dinner Parties
- VII The Altar of Heaven
- VIII The Servants of God
- IX The Inn
- X The Glory Hole
You come to the row of hovels that leadsto the gate of the city. They are builtof dried mud and so dilapidated thatyou feel a breath of wind will lay themflat upon the dusty earth from which they havebeen made. A string of camels, heavily laden,steps warily past you. They wear the disdainfulair of profiteers forced to traverse a world inwhich many ...
"I really think I can make something ofit," she said. She looked about her briskly, and thelight of the creative imagination filled hereyes with brightness. It was an old temple, a small one, in the city,which she had taken and was turning into a dwellinghouse. It had been built for a very holy monkby his admirers three hundred years before, andher...
Heaven knows from what mysteriousdistance he had come. He rode downthe winding pathway from the highMongolian plateau with the mountains,barren, stony, and inaccessible, stretchingon all sides, an impenetrable barrier; he rodedown past the temple that guarded the head ofthe pass till he came to the old river bed whichwas the gateway into China. It ...
I heard his extraordinary story before Isaw him and I expected someone of strikingappearance. It seemed to me that anyonewho had gone through such singularexperiences must have in his outer man somethingsingular too. But I found a person in whoseaspect there was nothing remarkable. He wassmaller than the average, somewhat frail, sun-burned,with hai...
He received me in a long room lookingon to a sandy garden. The roseswithered on the stunted bushes and thegreat old trees flagged forlorn. Hesat me down on a square stool at a square tableand took his seat in front of me. A servantbrought cups of flowered tea and Americancigarettes. He was a thin man, of the middleheight, with thin, elegant hands; ...
I: LEGATION QUARTER
The Swiss director of the Banque Sino-Argentinewas announced. He came witha large, handsome wife, who displayedher opulent charms so generously that itmade you a little nervous. It was said that shehad been a cocotte, and an English maiden lady(in salmon pink satin and beads) who had comeearly, greeted her with a thin and frigid smile.The Minister of Guatemala and the Chargé d'Affairesof Montenegro entered together. TheChargé d'Affaires was in a state of extreme agitation;he had not understoo...
II: AT A TREATY PORT
There was about the party a splendour whichhas vanished from the dinner tables of England.The mahogany groaned with silver. In the middleof the snowy damask cloth was a centrepiece ofyellow silk such as you were unwillingly constrainedto buy in the bazaars of your prim youthand on this was a massive épergne. Tall silvervases in which were large chrysanthemums madeit possible to catch only glimpses of the personsopposite you, and tall silver candlesticks rearedtheir proud heads two by two down...
It stands open to the sky, three round terracesof white marble, placed one above theother, which are reached by four marblestaircases, and these face the four points ofthe compass. It represents the celestial sphere withits cardinal points. A great park surrounds itand this again is surrounded by high walls. Andhither, year after year, on the night...
They were sitting side by side, two missionaries,talking to one another of perfectlytrivial things, in the way peopletalk who wish to show each other civilitybut have nothing in common; and they would havebeen surprised to be told that they had certainlyone admirable thing in common, goodness, for bothhad this also in common, humility; though perha...
It seems long since the night fell, and for anhour a coolie has walked before your chaircarrying a lantern. It throws a thin circleof light in front of you, and as you pass youcatch a pale glimpse (like a thing of beautyemerging vaguely from the ceaseless flux of commonlife) of a bamboo thicket, a flash of water ina rice field, or the heavy darknes...
It is a sort of little cubicle in a corner of thechandler's store just under the ceiling andyou reach it by a stair which is like a ship'scompanion. It is partitioned off from theshop by matchboarding, about four feet high, sothat when you sit on the wooden benches that surroundthe table you can see into the shop with allits stores. Here are coils ...
On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. 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.
Originally published in 1922, it’s a beautifully written book, evocative of a lost age of travel and the last days of Old China, and is often wickedly funny. Much of the humour comes from Maugham’s caustic treatment of Western expats whom he scorns for their pomposity, insularity and hypocrisy.
3 ago 2010 · On A Chinese Screen. W. Somerset Maugham. Random House, Aug 3, 2010 - Travel - 160 pages. Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river.
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