Wan Sonya Tang

Sanmao in Spain: identity, alterity, and marginality of the self and the other in Diarios de las Canarias

This chapter analyzes texts written about Spain by bestselling Taiwanese author Sanmao, the pseudonym of Chen Maoping (1943–1991), who was and continues to be idolized throughout Asia for her 1970s accounts of travel through and life in Spanish territories (the colony of Spanish...