The Three Maos' Wandering Days (Complete Collection)

Author: Zhang Leping
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: Remember the gaunt, orphaned, yet kind and justice-seeking Sanmao from childhood? Re-reading Sanmao, there are still tears and laughter. The square illustrations reveal the cruelty and indifference of society, yet also the warmth, empathy, and love of human goodness. Today's children are fortunate and happy. May the seeds of sympathy and love be sown in their young hearts, offering them beneficial insights.
Sanmao is a comic character born from the brush of the outstanding Chinese cartoonist Zhang Leping in 1935. A pitiful child with a miserable background, starving and freezing, bullied and impoverished to the point of having only three strands of hair, Sanmao's Adventures was created in 1947 and serialized in Dagongbao. With just a pen and a few drawings, without even a single word or symbol, the author vividly depicted the tragic life of this street child—how they were enslaved, bullied, humiliated, and trampled in the old society. It not only exposed the cruelty, brutality, ugliness, deception, and injustice of the world but, more preciously, strongly stimulated the benevolent sympathy of every good-hearted person, nurturing the innocent empathy of countless children!
This book is based on the content published in Dagongbao in 1947 and includes 6 original drafts that were not originally included, totaling 126 pages. It is the most complete version available.
The text has been fully translated into English, with original line breaks retained as instructed.