posted by Echo on January 5, 2011 | 8 comments
Today is the 20th anniversary of San Mao's death. She was a famous Taiwan writer who wrote from the 1970s to 1990s. Her books are mostly about her own life and stories. She spent a lot of time traveling around the world, and her stories were funny and touching and also (sometimes) sad.
San Mao is one of my favorite Chinese authors. She doesn't have a lot of stuff in translation, but she's worth reading in Chinese. And if you're at the intermediate level you can definitely get through her stuff. Here is her biography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao_%28author%29 .
I highly recommend her books if you are looking for some interesting and also easy understanding stories to read. You can find some of her stuff online here:
http://www.tianyabook.com/sanmao/index.htm .
--Echo
echo@popupchinese.com
Hi Echo, I went to the second link you suggested but only got garbled letters...
I work with a Mac (Safari). Is there another way to get to her material? Thank you for the recommendation!
@huyilin,
Hi Yilin, you may want to set your character encoding at Chinese (I use Mac too, and have no problem after setting it up) :) Let me know if there is still a problem.
--Echo
echo@popupchinese.com
@huyilin,
In Safari on Mac click on the "Safari" menu, then click on "Preferences", then click the "Appearance" tab, then at the bottom of the window you will see "Default Encoding", click the drop down menu and change the encoding to something chinese. I use "Traditional Chinese Big 5" but you may want to use one of the other chinese options.
Thank you, Echo and seanmeir! The "Traditional Chinese Big 5" still showed some garbled characters but better. "Simplified Chinese" seems to work best. Now, if I could only get rid of those flickering ads ... ;-0
@huyilin
You can get rid of ads in Safari. The best and widely used method is: http://safariadblock.com/
This will install an extension in safari that will block ads.