I also did a Q&A with the book's translator Mike Fu around the time I wrote this essay for my #newsletter #MovableWorlds.
We had an interesting conversation about the line between fact/fiction and also his experience navigating thorny issues of identity.
Read it here: https://movableworlds.co/p/14-mike-fu-you-can-be-both-as-much
#Sanmao, real name Chen Ping, was a Taiwanese travel writer who inspired generations of young women in the Chinese-speaking world. She was born some eighty years ago today, in 1943, and on this occasion, for your Sunday reading, I’m republishing here an essay I wrote a couple of years back for Mekong Review of her collection, Stories of the #Sahara—translated into English for the first time in 2019 by Mike Fu.
Read it here: https://movableworlds.co/p/rememberingsanmao
🇮🇨 Después de la apertura de los vuelos Tenerife - Nueva York, #Canarias busca ahora una conexión directa con #Asia, aunque no se ha especificado en qué ruta.
En #China, las islas gozan de cierta popularidad gracias a #SanMao (#三毛), escritora china que vivió en ellas y las dio a conocer en los años 60 y 70.
Hoy, en #Telde, se puede recorrer la Ruta San Mao, un recuerdo a la persona que conectó dos mundos gracias a la literatura.
Just learned the writer Sanmao 三毛 not only wrote nonfiction but also left a whole album of poems that were adapted into songs. Listening to them today and the music is so beautiful. The album is called 回声 Echo 🥺
The #homeless are always abused by the #capitalist system, and the #police are used to enforce the #propertyclaims that keep them from having a decent life.
#communism #socialism #anarchism #propertyistheft #conquest #systemic #poverty #sanmao
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