Sanmao

Chen Mao-ping, who later took the name Chen Ping and signed her work Sanmao, was born on 26 March 1943 in Chongqing; her family reached Taiwan in 1948 or in 1949, depending on the sources. She left school after being humiliated in class and was taught at home, then studied philosophy at the Chinese Culture University before leaving for Madrid. In the Spanish Sahara she married José María Quero y Ruiz, whom a diving accident took from her in 1979. Back in Taiwan in 1980, she taught there and published more than twenty books. She died on 4 January 1991 at the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei.

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• NarrativeStories of the Sahara撒哈拉的故事Sanmao · 1976Literature