The Stories of the Sahara
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The Stories of the Sahara is a semi- autobiographical
account of the life of Sanmao
while she was in the Sahara Desert. It was published in 1976, although some of the earlier stories were published in Taiwan's United Daily News as early as 1974. In the work, she describes her encounters with autochthonous cultures
, her adventures, and her relationship with her husband. The Stories of the Sahara is San Mao's first published collection of stories. It was met with immediate success and remains extremely popular in both Mainland China and Taiwan. In a study on the wave of enthusiasm for Taiwanese music and literature that swept the mainland in the 1980s, Hongwei Lu notes that "San Mao’s travel accounts of foreign cultures and life experiences gathered through her living and studying abroad provided post-Mao China with a taste of multiculturalism, and suggested the possibility of not only an expanded consciousness of the world, but a transformation of the way people think about the world and the possibility of being part of it."
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
account of the life of Sanmao
Sanmao (author)
Sanmao , literally "three hairs" though it is not considered to have a meaning, was the pseudonym of the popular Taiwanese author Chen Ping . She adopted her pseudonym from the acclaimed caricaturist Zhang Leping's most famous work "Sanmao", which tells the story of a Shanghai street child named...
while she was in the Sahara Desert. It was published in 1976, although some of the earlier stories were published in Taiwan's United Daily News as early as 1974. In the work, she describes her encounters with autochthonous cultures
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples are ethnic groups that are defined as indigenous according to one of the various definitions of the term, there is no universally accepted definition but most of which carry connotations of being the "original inhabitants" of a territory....
, her adventures, and her relationship with her husband. The Stories of the Sahara is San Mao's first published collection of stories. It was met with immediate success and remains extremely popular in both Mainland China and Taiwan. In a study on the wave of enthusiasm for Taiwanese music and literature that swept the mainland in the 1980s, Hongwei Lu notes that "San Mao’s travel accounts of foreign cultures and life experiences gathered through her living and studying abroad provided post-Mao China with a taste of multiculturalism, and suggested the possibility of not only an expanded consciousness of the world, but a transformation of the way people think about the world and the possibility of being part of it."