Of course, there’s joy mixed in as well, but not much.”A portrait of the late writer Sanmao. The friends from Chingchuan visit me in my dreams almost every night, and these people’s faces make my heart ache,” she continued in the letter. This photo shows Sanmao’s house in Chingchuan around 2005, just after it was fixed up by the government for tourism. “The Little Prince sobbingly told me that he could no longer return to the Sahara,” Sanmao wrote. Martinson writes he received numerous calls asking about the house, and countless people from across Taiwan passed through due to Sanmao’s calling.

Source: Taipei Times January 02, 2021 15:56 UTC