Adventures of Sanmao the Orphan

By Leping Zhang

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 962040131X
• ISBN13: 9789620401312
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Joint Publishing Co.
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Tragicomic, but more tragic than comic

I'm not sure what period this book takes place in...the civil war between Kuomintang and Communists? The pen (or brush?) drawings show great animation and texture. Although this is the story of an orphan wandering the big city who is still bereft at the end of the book, there are happy parts too -- living with a friend's family, finding a new pair of pants -- and a lot of gentle humour. There is no dialogue; the whole story is conveyed through pictures. In the places where there are shop signs or street signs, the English translations are given in footnotes. If there's a social message to be taken from this comicbook, it's to remember that there are millions of kids out there, still, who live like this. "The widow, the fatherless, and the alien" aren't people whom the well-off (note I didn't say rich only) can afford to ignore.

goodness in badness

A chinese cartoon created half of a century ago depicting the life of a small orphan in ShangHai. It shows the bitterness of life in dark society thus criticize the corrupted government; at the same time, it reveals the optimistic personality of San Mao (it means "three (string of)hair). It is a very touching story, if you read in depth of it, you would enjoy more of your life in America--where people's lives are more and more filled with luxuries.