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三毛集 #5
万水千山走遍
Paperback. Pub Date :2011-07-01 252 Chinese Beijing October Arts Press p As far traveled ( 2011 edition ) is mainly recorded her in Central and South America and mainland travel knowledge and experience. as readers . we wish to follow her footsteps . but also to do a paper travel. The book narrates the trip to Mexico . Honduras trip . trip to Panama . etc. . on the road saw and heard . customs which in turn brings Sanmao feel it ? In this wonderful travel essays . we will find the answers . ppp
177 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
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Sanmao
35 books139 followersSanmao (Chinese: 三毛; March 26, 1943 – January 4, 1991) was a Taiwanese writer and translator. Her works range from autobiographical writing, travel writing, and reflective novels, to translations of Spanish-language comic strips. She studied philosophy and taught German before becoming a career writer.
Born as Chen Mao-ping (陳懋平), her pen name was adopted from the main character of Zhang Leping's most famous work, Sanmao. In English, she was also known as Echo or Echo Chan, the first name she used in Latin script, after the eponymous Greek nymph.
Sanmao was born in Chongqing to Chen Siqing, a lawyer, and Miao Jinlan. She had an older sister, Chen Tianxin. Her parents were devout Christians. Her family was from Zhejiang. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, the family moved to Nanjing. When she was six, her family moved to Taiwan because of the Communist takeover of mainland China. She disliked the lack of freedom in Taiwan's educational system, in which strict restrictions were placed on students.
As a child, she developed an early interest in literature and was exposed to famous Chinese writers, such as Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Bing Xin, Lao She, and Yu Dafu. She read works such as The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote, and Gone with the Wind. She was particularly interested in Dream of the Red Chamber and read it as a Grade 5 student during class. When asked what she wanted to become when she was older, she responded that she wanted to marry a great artist, specifically Pablo Picasso.
Due to her preoccupation with reading, Sanmao's grades suffered in middle school, particularly in mathematics. After a distressing incident when a teacher drew black circles around her eyes and humiliated her in front of her classmates, Sanmao stopped attending school. Her father taught her English and classical literature at home and hired tutors to teach her piano and painting.
In 1962, at age 19, Sanmao published her first essay. Sanmao studied philosophy at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, with the goal of "[finding] the solution to problems in life." There, she dated a fellow student; however, becoming "disillusioned with romance," she moved to Madrid, Spain at age 20 and began studying at the University of Madrid.
Sanmao later moved to Germany, where she intensively studied the German language, sometimes up to 16 hours per day. Within nine months, she earned a qualification to teach German and began studying ceramics.
At age 26, Sanmao returned to Taiwan. She was engaged to a teacher from Germany, but he died from a heart attack before they could marry. Sanmao returned to Madrid and began teaching English at a primary school.
In 1976 she published the autobiographical The Stories of the Sahara, which was on her experiences living in the Sahara together with her Spanish husband Jose, who she first met in Madrid and later married in 1973 while living together in the then Spanish-controlled Western Sahara. Part travelog and part memoir, it was an account of life and love in the desert and established Sanmao as an autobiographical writer with a unique voice and perspective. Following the book's immense success in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, her early writings were collected into a book, published under the title Gone With the Rainy Season. She continued to write, and her experiences in the Sahara and the Canary Islands were published in several more books.
In 1979 Jose drowned while diving. In 1980 she returned to Taiwan, and in November 1981, she traveled to Central and South America on commission from Taiwanese publishers. These experiences were recorded in subsequent writings. From 1981 to 1984, she taught and lectured at her alma mater, Chinese Culture University, in Taiwan. After this point, she decided to dedicate herself fully to writing.
Sanmao's books deal mainly with her own experiences studying and living abroad. They were extremely well received not only in Taiwan, but also in China, and they remain
Born as Chen Mao-ping (陳懋平), her pen name was adopted from the main character of Zhang Leping's most famous work, Sanmao. In English, she was also known as Echo or Echo Chan, the first name she used in Latin script, after the eponymous Greek nymph.
Sanmao was born in Chongqing to Chen Siqing, a lawyer, and Miao Jinlan. She had an older sister, Chen Tianxin. Her parents were devout Christians. Her family was from Zhejiang. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, the family moved to Nanjing. When she was six, her family moved to Taiwan because of the Communist takeover of mainland China. She disliked the lack of freedom in Taiwan's educational system, in which strict restrictions were placed on students.
As a child, she developed an early interest in literature and was exposed to famous Chinese writers, such as Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Bing Xin, Lao She, and Yu Dafu. She read works such as The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote, and Gone with the Wind. She was particularly interested in Dream of the Red Chamber and read it as a Grade 5 student during class. When asked what she wanted to become when she was older, she responded that she wanted to marry a great artist, specifically Pablo Picasso.
Due to her preoccupation with reading, Sanmao's grades suffered in middle school, particularly in mathematics. After a distressing incident when a teacher drew black circles around her eyes and humiliated her in front of her classmates, Sanmao stopped attending school. Her father taught her English and classical literature at home and hired tutors to teach her piano and painting.
In 1962, at age 19, Sanmao published her first essay. Sanmao studied philosophy at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, with the goal of "[finding] the solution to problems in life." There, she dated a fellow student; however, becoming "disillusioned with romance," she moved to Madrid, Spain at age 20 and began studying at the University of Madrid.
Sanmao later moved to Germany, where she intensively studied the German language, sometimes up to 16 hours per day. Within nine months, she earned a qualification to teach German and began studying ceramics.
At age 26, Sanmao returned to Taiwan. She was engaged to a teacher from Germany, but he died from a heart attack before they could marry. Sanmao returned to Madrid and began teaching English at a primary school.
In 1976 she published the autobiographical The Stories of the Sahara, which was on her experiences living in the Sahara together with her Spanish husband Jose, who she first met in Madrid and later married in 1973 while living together in the then Spanish-controlled Western Sahara. Part travelog and part memoir, it was an account of life and love in the desert and established Sanmao as an autobiographical writer with a unique voice and perspective. Following the book's immense success in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, her early writings were collected into a book, published under the title Gone With the Rainy Season. She continued to write, and her experiences in the Sahara and the Canary Islands were published in several more books.
In 1979 Jose drowned while diving. In 1980 she returned to Taiwan, and in November 1981, she traveled to Central and South America on commission from Taiwanese publishers. These experiences were recorded in subsequent writings. From 1981 to 1984, she taught and lectured at her alma mater, Chinese Culture University, in Taiwan. After this point, she decided to dedicate herself fully to writing.
Sanmao's books deal mainly with her own experiences studying and living abroad. They were extremely well received not only in Taiwan, but also in China, and they remain
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May 30, 2024
《夜半逾城》有一段写道，敦煌有位兄弟感谢三毛，说三毛的文字让他当时的女友理解了他在敦煌的工作。理想主义的三毛与七八十年代，真是互相成就。当下一直在卷的我们，还愿意搭理三毛一眼吗？
May 6, 2024
I finished my third book of 三毛, a Taiwanese author who chronicled her travels in South America back in the 1980s. She backpacked for six months.
Sanmao had a peculiar personality and a wanderlust life. Traveling makes her feel alive and connected to the earth. In her early days, she lived in the Sahara desert, and then in the Canary Islands with her husband. She’s a pioneer of travel writing, her free spirit and passion for life most evident in her writing.
Yet, I feel like she’s not a good role model- she had many flaws, and was very unconventional, for better or for worse… (conformity is not a bad thing). She sees a lot of things that ordinary people don’t see, and that’s her anguish. She is a writer blessed with vivid memory of her childhood. Where few people remember their childhood, she claims: to remember her own birth.
In the book, the parts I liked most were her interactions with the indigenous people. They actually hired a photographer and assistant 米夏 to follow her throughout the trip, but I never saw any of her pictures from this trip, which was puzzling.
The parts disliked most was really, everything. This is NOT a bad piece of work. It made me cry and I think I was touched at some parts. But it also made me feel so sad and troubled and overwhelmed at times. To quote one of our reviewers, "這些文章的字裏行間還給我一種感覺：三毛此時的精神狀態好像不太對勁，但我也說不出具體是哪裏不對。可以這麼說：從《撒哈拉的故事》中我感受到許多靈氣，而《萬水千山走遍》則體現出種種「靈」氣……" I also felt like, something was off about her mentally then. As I reader I felt this spirit from her writing and it was scary at times.
In one essay I feel the emptiness, her emptiness, strongly — and in another about her childhood home I felt the nostalgia and longing for place (which is pretty a constant theme in her works). I wish I never read it because now I feel like I have to cleanse my mind.
This is probably the last book of sanmao I’ll ever read, although her writing is brilliant. I remember reading my first sanmao book / it was 温柔的夜 (Gentle Night), followed by 撒哈拉沙的故事 (Stories of the Sahara). I was enthralled. I might have felt she wasn’t depressed then, I think, so I enjoyed the two previous books better, where there is a clear narration and lighthearted style flowing from her pen. "是三毛在荷西去世后写的，他和助手米夏踏上了南美洲的旅行。整本书充满了对荷西的怀念，文字没有了以前的无忧无虑无所顾忌。万水千山走遍仍在怀念荷西。" Then I read my last Sanmao book 千山万水走遍. Whether or not I'll revisit her works in future, I do not know, but I think I probably will, especially 温柔的夜 which is quite close to my heart.
Fun fact: she actually came to Singapore twice before! And even gave a seminar at NTU. They have an article about it here: https://www.zaobao.com.sg/zlifestyle/...
Sanmao had a peculiar personality and a wanderlust life. Traveling makes her feel alive and connected to the earth. In her early days, she lived in the Sahara desert, and then in the Canary Islands with her husband. She’s a pioneer of travel writing, her free spirit and passion for life most evident in her writing.
Yet, I feel like she’s not a good role model- she had many flaws, and was very unconventional, for better or for worse… (conformity is not a bad thing). She sees a lot of things that ordinary people don’t see, and that’s her anguish. She is a writer blessed with vivid memory of her childhood. Where few people remember their childhood, she claims: to remember her own birth.
In the book, the parts I liked most were her interactions with the indigenous people. They actually hired a photographer and assistant 米夏 to follow her throughout the trip, but I never saw any of her pictures from this trip, which was puzzling.
The parts disliked most was really, everything. This is NOT a bad piece of work. It made me cry and I think I was touched at some parts. But it also made me feel so sad and troubled and overwhelmed at times. To quote one of our reviewers, "這些文章的字裏行間還給我一種感覺：三毛此時的精神狀態好像不太對勁，但我也說不出具體是哪裏不對。可以這麼說：從《撒哈拉的故事》中我感受到許多靈氣，而《萬水千山走遍》則體現出種種「靈」氣……" I also felt like, something was off about her mentally then. As I reader I felt this spirit from her writing and it was scary at times.
In one essay I feel the emptiness, her emptiness, strongly — and in another about her childhood home I felt the nostalgia and longing for place (which is pretty a constant theme in her works). I wish I never read it because now I feel like I have to cleanse my mind.
This is probably the last book of sanmao I’ll ever read, although her writing is brilliant. I remember reading my first sanmao book / it was 温柔的夜 (Gentle Night), followed by 撒哈拉沙的故事 (Stories of the Sahara). I was enthralled. I might have felt she wasn’t depressed then, I think, so I enjoyed the two previous books better, where there is a clear narration and lighthearted style flowing from her pen. "是三毛在荷西去世后写的，他和助手米夏踏上了南美洲的旅行。整本书充满了对荷西的怀念，文字没有了以前的无忧无虑无所顾忌。万水千山走遍仍在怀念荷西。" Then I read my last Sanmao book 千山万水走遍. Whether or not I'll revisit her works in future, I do not know, but I think I probably will, especially 温柔的夜 which is quite close to my heart.
Fun fact: she actually came to Singapore twice before! And even gave a seminar at NTU. They have an article about it here: https://www.zaobao.com.sg/zlifestyle/...
September 14, 2021
不知是由於尚未從喪夫之痛中完全恢復還是因爲身負報社的寫作任務，抑或是二者兼而有之，比起《撒哈拉的故事》來，本書略顯粗糙無趣，行文竟然幾乎全是單句成段，一逗到底，時而還出現並不通順的語句——這似乎也不是四十年前語文習慣或有不同能夠解釋的。這些文章的字裏行間還給我一種感覺：三毛此時的精神狀態好像不太對勁，但我也說不出具體是哪裏不對。可以這麼說：從《撒哈拉的故事》中我感受到許多靈氣，而《萬水千山走遍》則體現出種種「靈」氣……
另外，三毛似乎還有意不提「米夏」是美國人，卻又隱隱地在側面描寫中透露出一些蛛絲馬跡。最後他本人在附文中對此作出確認，讓我覺得自己像是個偵探破了一樁案子。
以想象自己前世是印加帝國時期當地土著部落中的巫醫女孩而創作的故事中，其實有一個很大的漏洞：西班牙人入侵之前，美洲大陸上並沒有羊。
另外，三毛似乎還有意不提「米夏」是美國人，卻又隱隱地在側面描寫中透露出一些蛛絲馬跡。最後他本人在附文中對此作出確認，讓我覺得自己像是個偵探破了一樁案子。
以想象自己前世是印加帝國時期當地土著部落中的巫醫女孩而創作的故事中，其實有一個很大的漏洞：西班牙人入侵之前，美洲大陸上並沒有羊。
May 9, 2022
哥斯达黎加 墨西哥 秘鲁 看完更想去南美了
October 14, 2022
还行，痛苦文案工作。
February 10, 2024
First book I read from Sanmao. She loves the life, the kind people, the secrets of human, the Chinese culture. I also love the way she telling stories and the way she see the world.
February 2, 2025
我大概是感受到了三毛的内心，理解了她的种种选择，她的勇气是常人没有的，这是我看的第四本三毛的作品，我真是深深的爱上了这样一个人，再多褒义词也无法形容出我对三毛的欣赏。
February 4, 2025
看了更想去南美了
三毛说，原住民多的地方，人民就善良，所以阿根廷很傲慢但是秘鲁和厄瓜多尔很好。最喜欢的是那个旅游冷门的玻利维亚。
她的助理好不给力，听起来我都想解雇了。
年龄这么大，还坚持坐很久很久的民用大巴，看了很敬佩。在玻利维亚山里随便找个人家住一周的故事，也充满了三毛才有的说走就走和活在当下感。谢谢三毛。要去南美了。
三毛说，原住民多的地方，人民就善良，所以阿根廷很傲慢但是秘鲁和厄瓜多尔很好。最喜欢的是那个旅游冷门的玻利维亚。
她的助理好不给力，听起来我都想解雇了。
年龄这么大，还坚持坐很久很久的民用大巴，看了很敬佩。在玻利维亚山里随便找个人家住一周的故事，也充满了三毛才有的说走就走和活在当下感。谢谢三毛。要去南美了。
September 30, 2025
三毛的内心是那样优美、坚强、而又充满了人性。她的文章是那样的清新，不受限制，但是又充满了爱。这不是简简单单的游击，而是三毛对于人生的解读与热情。
December 11, 2025
边读边会对拉丁美洲越来越好奇，经常读着读着我就打开了Google maps搜寻着你去过的地点，有些地方好像都没有怎么变化欸，之前一直想去哥伦比亚的咖啡庄园附近住一住，会提上日程的！你是这么的随性，好喜欢你的勇敢，自由，洒脱。
September 20, 2020
读到一半的时候，心中响起了妈妈在我小时候常听的歌曲，橄榄树。最爱的桥段是，她偶遇有感应的安妮，又在智利看轻了似乎性情相合的“情人”，最令人动容莫非在莫高窟，写尽了自由的人在高原荒漠中的归属感。写南京那里，我才意识到三毛是经历过国共之交的，那动荡无常，何尝不如我们今天。而南京也本是一个给我个人带来巨变的城市。再次共鸣。
July 9, 2017
岁月可以这样安静而单纯的流过去，而太阳仍旧一样升起。
是三毛在荷西去世后写的，他和助手米夏踏上了南美洲的旅行。整本书充满了对荷西的怀念，文字没有了以前的无忧无虑无所顾忌。万水千山走遍仍在怀念荷西。
是三毛在荷西去世后写的，他和助手米夏踏上了南美洲的旅行。整本书充满了对荷西的怀念，文字没有了以前的无忧无虑无所顾忌。万水千山走遍仍在怀念荷西。
August 26, 2018
三毛，灵魂正在随着哪里的风呢？
May 3, 2013
感触灵魂的作品。
激起我对南美古老国度的向往。
善良的人儿，朴实的生活，简单的快乐。
激起我对南美古老国度的向往。
善良的人儿，朴实的生活，简单的快乐。
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