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On a Chinese Screen

Author	W. Somerset Maugham
Language	English
Subject	Nonfiction
Genre	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 equally focused on the various westerners he met during the trip and their struggles to accept or adapt to the cultural differences they encounter, which are often as enormous and as alienating as the country itself.

1 The Rising of the Curtain - 2 My Lady's Parlour - 3 The Mongol Chief - 4 The Rolling Stone - 5 The Cabinet Minister - 6 Dinner Parties - 7 The Altar of Heaven - 8 The Servants of God - 9 The Inn - 10 The Glory Hole - 11 Fear - 12 The Picture - 13 His Britannic Majesty's Representative - 14 The Opium Den - 15 The Last Chance - 16 The Nun - 17 Henderson - 18 Dawn - 19 The Point of Honour - 20 The Beast of Burden - 21 Dr Macalister - 22 The Road - 23 God's Truth - 24 Romance - 25 The Grand Style - 26 Rain - 27 Sullivan - 28 The Dining-Room - 29 Arabesque - 30 The Consul - 31 The Stripling - 32 The Fannings - 33 The Song of the River - 34 Mirage - 35 The Stranger - 36 Democracy - 37 The Seventh Day Adventist - 38 The Philosopher - 39 The Missionary Lady - 40 A Game of Billiards - 41 The Skipper - 42 The Sights of the Town - 43 NIghtfall - 44 The Normal Man - 45 The Old Timer - 46 The Plain - 47 Failure - 48 A Student of the Drama - 49 The Taipan - 50 Metempsychosis - 51 The Fragment - 52 One of the Best - 53 The Sea-Dog - 54 The Question - 55 The Sinologue - 56 The Vice-Consul - 57 A City Built on a Rock - 58 A Libation to the Gods

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On a Chinese Screen at Standard Ebooks
On a Chinese Screen public domain audiobook at LibriVox

v t e Works by W. Somerset Maugham
Novels	Liza of Lambeth (1897) Mrs Craddock (1902) The Magician (1908) Of Human Bondage (1915) The Moon and Sixpence (1919) The Painted Veil (1925) Cakes and Ale (1930) The Narrow Corner (1932) Theatre (1937) Christmas Holiday (1939) Up at the Villa (1941) The Razor's Edge (1944) Then and Now (1946) Catalina (1948)
Short story collections	The Trembling of a Leaf (1921) The Casuarina Tree (1926) Ashenden (1928) Ah King (1933) The Mixture as Before (1940) Creatures of Circumstance (1947)
Short stories	"Rain" "The Vessel of Wrath" "The Lotus Eater" "The Unconquered"
Plays	Loaves and Fishes (1902) Lady Frederick (1907) Smith (1909) Penelope (1909) The Land of Promise (1913) Our Betters (1917) Caesar's Wife (1919) The Circle (1921) The Constant Wife (1926) The Letter (1927) The Sacred Flame (1928) The Bread-Winner (1930) For Services Rendered (1932) Sheppey (1933)
Non-fiction	On a Chinese Screen (1922) The Summing Up (1938) Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954)
Adaptations	The Explorer (1915) The Land of Promise (1917) Smith (1917) The Divorcée (1919) Jack Straw (1920) East of Suez (1925) The Circle (1925) The Canadian (1926) The Magician (1926) Sadie Thompson (1928) The Letter (1929) Charming Sinners (1929) Strictly Unconventional (1930) Rain (1932) The Narrow Corner (1933) Our Betters (1933) Of Human Bondage (1934) The Painted Veil (1934) The Right to Live (1935) Secret Agent (1936) The Tenth Man (1936) Isle of Fury (1936) Another Dawn (1937) The Vessel of Wrath (1938) The Letter (1940) Too Many Husbands (1940) The Moon and Sixpence (1942) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946) The Razor's Edge (1946) Of Human Bondage (1946) The Unfaithful (1947) Quartet (1948) Trio (1950) Encore (1951) Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) The Beachcomber (1954) The Seventh Sin (1957) Adorable Julia (1962) Of Human Bondage (1964) The Razor's Edge (1984) Up at the Villa (2000) Being Julia (2004) The Painted Veil (2006)
Related	Somerset Maugham Award

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