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Title: On a Chinese Screen
Author: W Somerset Maugham
Narrator: Richard Mitchley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-09-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration
Publisher's Summary:
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling 1500 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.
Critic Reviews:
Evokes the nostalgic China of "old China hands," replete with rickshaws, coolies and singsing girls (Los Angeles Times)
Masterly, carefully wrought prose sketches... The magical, mysterious East is richly portrayed (Newsday)
A fascinating volume - vivid, thoughtful, full of colour (New York Times)
