On a Chinese Screen
A collection of short vignettes about the people and places W. Somerset Maugham encountered during his travels along the Yangtze River in 1919–20.
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- Imprint
- Dedication
- I: The Rising of the Curtain
- II: My Lady’s Parlour
- III: The Mongol Chief
- IV: The Rolling Stone
- V: The Cabinet Minister
- VI: Dinner Parties
- I: Legation Quarter
- II: At a Treaty Port
- VII: The Altar of Heaven
- VIII: The Servants of God
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- IX: The Inn
- X: The Glory Hole
- XI: Fear
- XII: The Picture
- XIII: Her Britannic Majesty’s Representative
- XIV: The Opium Den
- XV: The Last Chance
- XVI: The Nun
- XVII: Henderson
- XVIII: Dawn
- XIX: The Point of Honour
- XX: The Beast of Burden
- XXI: Dr. Macalister
- XXII: The Road
- XXIII: God’s Truth
- XXIV: Romance
- XXV: The Grand Style
- XXVI: Rain
- XXVII: Sullivan
- XXVIII: The Dining-Room
- XXIX: Arabesque
- XXX: The Consul
- XXXI: The Stripling
- XXXII: The Fannings
- XXXIII: The Song of the River
- XXXIV: Mirage
- XXXV: The Stranger
- XXXVI: Democracy
- XXXVII: The Seventh Day Adventist
- XXXVIII: The Philosopher
- XXXIX: The Missionary Lady
- XL: A Game of Billiards
- XLI: The Skipper
- XLII: The Sights of Town
- XLIII: Nightfall
- XLIV: The Normal Man
- XLV: The Old Timer
- XLVI: The Plain
- XLVII: Failure
- XLVIII: A Student of the Drama
- XLIX: The Taipan
- L: Metempsychosis
- LI: The Fragment
- LII: One of the Best
- LIII: The Sea-Dog
- LIV: The Question
- LV: The Sinologue
- LVI: The Vice-Consul
- LVII: A City Built on a Rock
- LVIII: A Libation to the Gods
- Endnotes
- Colophon
- Uncopyright
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