Sānmáo, why did you break the date?

Author: Meizi
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book is a decade-old memory about the female writer Sanmao, telling you a true Sanmao, a vibrant heart more beautiful than any color. Sanmao was skilled at grasping her own thoughts and spirituality. She always approached things with great seriousness and weight, thus giving rise to many realities. She once said, "Life is truly beautiful, let us cherish every new day that dawns." Her friends said, "Yes." But she quietly left, on a morning when the sun was about to rise. The Silk Road holds myths, legends, tales of romance, and the ancient beacon fires that capture the world's attention. It also records a woman: she roams the world, has visited the western regions of China twice, studied at the University of Madrid in Spain, and at the German Academy. She once worked as a librarian in the English, American, and French classification libraries at the University of Illinois in the United States, as a secretary at the U.S. Consulate in the Canary Islands, and as an English teacher at a Spanish school. After returning to Taiwan, she taught at the Chinese Department of Cultural University. The spirit is eternal. She—Sanmao, once truly and joyfully happy, wept and laughed; she sorrowfully lamented, faced death and escaped, but ultimately could not escape the sea within her own heart. Friends, sing the praises of life, sing the praises of the spring and autumn of what has been, sing the praises of oblivion, sing the praises of what will surely live forever. This book "questions" why the female writer failed to keep her promise to her parents and friends to visit the western regions, records Sanmao's travels in Xinjiang in the nearly year before her death, and documents her final legendary life after interviewing the "King of Western Songs."