Study on Chinese Folk Customs in Early Twentieth Century from On a Chinese Screen

Keywords

Maugham; On a Chinese Screen; Chinese folk customs

Abstract

In the 1920s, British writer Maugham created his very representative travelogue to record the traveling along the Yangtze river in China: On a Chinese Screen, which describes in detail the various Chinese folk customs in villages and cities from an outsider perspective of modern western civilization. He not only explores a new understanding of the modern Chinese folk culture in time and space, but also puts unique aesthetic feelings on Chinese culture. Therefore his travel notes can be considered as the excellent literary texts reflecting the "internal value" and "external value" of Chinese folk customs.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Han Zhang
PY  - 2019/08
DA  - 2019/08
TI  - Study on Chinese Folk Customs in Early Twentieth Century from On a Chinese Screen
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 261
EP  - 263
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125916097
ID  - Zhang2019/08
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