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Dick

On Jan 9, 8:48 am, snipped-for-privacy@panix.com (Dick Adams) wrote:

The subject of my thesis is On the Images of China in William Somerset Maugham's Works. In fact, it is not very difficult for native speakers for the English Language written by me is very simple. The following is the beginning of my thesis. Can you help me polish it? Do you have an MSN? I want to make friends with native speakers in order to improve my English? My Email is : snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com.cn Thank you very much.

William Somerset Maugham (1874--1965), born in Paris, is one of the most popular writers in British literature. He has created about 20 novels, more than 100 short stories, 32 plays as well as lots of memoirs, travel essays, comments etc., all his life. Maugham has shown his versatility in all the literary fields except poem. what's more, a number of his novels have been adapted to movies. The income from these successful movie adaptations and his writings allow Maugham to live a very comfortable life. Maugham's creation period spans as long as 65 years and his works are very popular around the world. However, despite his popularity among ordinary readers all over the world, he has not received the due recognition from the literary critics or his peers for many of them hold that he is just a writer in"the very first row of the second raters". (maugham The Summing Up, 1938)Maugham's main works include Of Human Bondage, which is considered as his representative work, The Moon and Sixpence, The Razor's Edege, Cakes and Ale and so on. It can be said safely that Maugham's works have the strongest exotic flavor among British writers. Due to his hobby, Maugham all his life has visited lots of countries and regions such as Russia, South America, the South Pacific islands and so on. Maugham is also very interested in the Oriental culture especially Chinese culture and he visited China in 1999 with his life-long companion Gerald Haxton. Based on his travel around China, he has created the travel essays collection On a Chinese Sreen, the novel The Painted Veil , the short story The Letter which is latter adapted to the play The Letter, and the play East of Suez. Other works related to China or Chinese people include Of Human Bondage, short stories Ah King, The Narrow Corner, A Casual Affair, The Door of Opportunity and so on. By adopting Imagology of comparative literature, this thesis will research the images of China in Maugham works. Meanwhile, Said's Orientalism theory is also adopted as an auxiliary theory in this thesis. Since the images of China are mainly depicted and reflected in On a Chinese Sreen, this thesis will focus on this work.