On A Chinese Screen

Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4066339542419

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On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham Pdf

"On a Chinese Screen" by W. Somerset Maugham provides readers with a unique perspective on China through a collection of vignettes and observations. Maugham's writing offers a window into Chinese culture, society, and customs as seen through the eyes of the author. This book is an enlightening read for those interested in travel writing and cultural exploration, providing insights into the complexities and nuances of China in the early 20th century.

Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633554443

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On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham Pdf

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, army officers and company managers are all gently ridiculed as they persist obliviously with the life they know.

Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:633904890

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On a Chinese screen by William Somerset Maugham Pdf

Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18T19:49:51Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:F996B1976E6FDC81

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On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham Pdf

On a Chinese Screen was first published in 1922 by Heinemann Publishers, London. Its 58 short vignettes are based on Maugham’s travels along the Yangtze River from 1919 to 1920. Although later editions of the book added the subtitle “Sketches of Life in China,” there are actually only a few descriptions of the places he visited and the local Chinese people he met; rather, Maugham focuses on relaying his encounters with a range of Europeans living and working in the country. Maugham is quite critical of many of them and their lack of interest in, and sometimes disdain, for the country and its people, except for the extent to which their careers and pockets could benefit. His sketches highlight the difficulties that many expatriates encounter while living in a foreign culture. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780824833732

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Adapted for the Screen by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman Pdf

Hsiu-Chang Deppman puts landmark contemporary Chinese films in the context of their literary origins & explores how the best Chinese directors adapt fictional narratives & styles for film.

Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861898425

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The Double Screen by Wu Hung Pdf

In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and cultural conventions neglected. A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen, which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art. The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism, masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of art and Asian studies.

Author : William Somerset Waugham,胡仲持
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:40249024

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Zhongguo Jian Wen Za Ji by William Somerset Waugham,胡仲持 Pdf

Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548163554

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On a Chinese Screen (Jovian Press) by W. Somerset Maugham Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:220547254

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The Chinese Screen by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paola Voci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136960017

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China on Video by Paola Voci Pdf

China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media, new media, media anthropology, visual arts, contemporary China area studies, and cultural studies--this book reveals the existence of a creative, humorous, but also socially and politically critical "China on video", which locates itself outside of the intellectual discourse surrounding both auteur cinema and digital art. By describing smaller-screen movies, moviemaking and viewing as light realities, Voci points to their "insignificant" weight in terms of production costs, distribution size, profit gains, intellectual or artistic ambitions, but also their deep meaning in defining an alternative way of seeing and understanding the world. The author proposes that lightness is a concept that can usefully be deployed to describe the moving image, beyond the specificity of recent new media developments and which can, in fact, help us rethink previous cinematic practices in broad terms both spatially and temporally.

Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Hesperides Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1406794406

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On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham Pdf

A collection of sketches of life in China. Mr. Somerset Maugham writes with equal certainty and vigour whether his characters are Chinese or European

Author : W. Maugham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798750180394

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On a Chinese Screen by W. Maugham Pdf

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.

Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722440872

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On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham Pdf

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.

Author : Zhang Zhen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0226982378

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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen by Zhang Zhen Pdf

Illustrating the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change, this book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature.

Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1440035113

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On a Chinese Screen (Classic Reprint) by W. Somerset Maugham Pdf

Excerpt from On a Chinese Screen You come to the row of hovels that leads to the gate of the city. They are built of dried mud and so dilapidated that you feel a breath of wind will lay them flat upon the dusty earth from which they have been made. A string of camels, heavily laden, steps warily past you. They wear the disdainful air of profiteers forced to traverse a world in which many people are not so rich as they. A little crowd, tattered in their blue clothes, is gathered about the gate and it scatters as a youth in a pointed cap gallops up on a Mongolian pony. A band of children are chasing a lame dog and they throw clods of mud at it. Two stout gentlemen in long black gowns of figured silk and silk jackets stand talking to one another. Each holds a little stick, perched on which, with a string attached to its leg, is a little bird. They have brought out their pets for an airing and in friendly fashion compare their merits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.