On a Chinese Screen (Jovian Press)

On a Chinese Screen (Jovian Press)
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Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 1548163554
ISBN-13 : 9781548163556
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Book Synopsis On a Chinese Screen (Jovian Press) by : W. Somerset Maugham

Download or read book On a Chinese Screen (Jovian Press) written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Somerset Maugham, who travelled over a thousand miles up the Yangtse river, used his acerbic and insightful notes to write this fascinating book.


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