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.