W.Somerset Maugham spent the wintermonths of 1919 20 travelling 1 500 milesup the Yangtze river. Always moreinterested in people than places he gavefull rein to a sensitive and philosophicalnature: "On a Chinese Screen" is the refinedaccumulation of the countless scraps ofpaper on which he had taken notes.

"Not a book, but the material for abook", it is a series of acute and finelycrafted sketches of Westerners who areculturally out of their depth in theimmensity of the Chinese civilisation.Within the narrow confines of theircolonial milieu, missionaries, consuls,army officers and company managers areall gently ridiculed as they persistobliviously with the life they know.

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