威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆是20世纪英国的著名小说家、戏剧家。毛姆具有丰富的人生经历,早年做过医生,后来用犀利的笔触记载着周遭的一切。他一生酷爱游历,足迹遍布世界各地,这些经历为他的写作提供了丰富的素材,也为他的写作内容注入了异域风情的特点。他带着自己的秘书来到20世纪20年代的中国,并对于当时处于边缘地位的中国充满了好奇并寄予了很高的期望,感受着这个古老文明国家的悠久历史社会现状、人文景观以及中西文明的交融和碰撞。本文将从毛姆《彩色的面纱》这部作品出发,它以20世纪20年代的中国为历史背景,既反映出毛姆对整个东方文明的无比向往,又在很多方面体现着毛姆等一代作家的东方主义思想对东方文化的抵制和蔑视。 William Somerset Maugham is a famous British novelist and dramatist of the 20th century. Maugham has a wealth of life experience, had a doctor in his early years, and later recorded with sharp brushstroke around everything. His passion for travels throughout the world, his footprints all over the world, these experiences for his writing provides a wealth of material, but also for his writing content into the exotic characteristics. He came to China in the 1920s with his own secretary. He was curious and placed high hopes on the then marginalized China and experienced the long history and social conditions, the cultural landscape and the central and western aspects of this ancient and civilized country. The blending and collision of civilizations. Starting from Maugham’s “Colored Veil,” this article, based on the historical background of China in the 1920s, not only reflects Maugham’s unparalleled longing for the entire Eastern civilization, but also embodies the generation of Maugham in many ways The writer’s Orientalism rejects and despises Eastern culture.