On a Chinese Screen
by W. Somerset Maugham
205 pages~3 hrs
“A master storyteller's kaleidoscopic journey through a vanishing world.”
Travel deep into the heart of post-imperial China through the sharp and evocative lens of one of the 20th century’s greatest storytellers. These vivid sketches capture a world on the brink of transformation, populated by eccentric expatriates and weary travelers along the mist-shrouded Yangtze.
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