# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sanmao
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:43.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sanmao"
name: "Sanmao"
slug: "sanmao"
description: "Sanmao was the pen name of Echo Chen Ping, a Taiwanese writer and translator. Her works range from autobiographical writing, travel writing and reflective novels, to translations of Spanish-language comic strips. She studied philosophy and taught German before becoming a career writer. Her pen name was adopted from the main character of Zhang Leping's most famous work, Sanmao. In English, she was also known as Echo or Echo Chan, the first name she used in Latin script, after the eponymous Greek nymph. Since childhood, she was said to have avoided writing the character \"Mao\" (懋) as it was too complex; later in life, she legally changed her name to Chen Ping."
tagline: "Taiwanese novelist, translator and writer (1943-1991)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/SanMaophoto.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-03-26"
deathDate: "1991-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.79
  momentum:             7.194531541769809
  historical:           20.40059333333334
  currentAttention:     32.46808875182043
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0760768/"
    handle:    "nm0760768"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/67d10e3c-2b8b-4aed-94f2-96b6dfe657d3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "سان ماو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "سانماو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao_(escriptora)"
    title: "Sanmao (escriptora)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao"
    title: "Sanmao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao_(writer)"
    title: "Sanmao (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao_(escritora)"
    title: "Sanmao (escritora)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao"
    title: "Sanmao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao_(%C3%A9crivaine)"
    title: "Sanmao (écrivaine)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao"
    title: "Sanmao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%B8"
    title: "Սան Մաո"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%AF%9B"
    title: "三毛"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%BC%EB%A7%88%EC%98%A4"
    title: "싼마오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao"
    title: "Sanmao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%93_(%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%96%E0%A8%95)"
    title: "ਸਨਮਾਓ (ਲੇਖਕ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BE"
    title: "Сань Мао"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao"
    title: "Sanmao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BE_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8F)"
    title: "Саньмао (письменниця)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Mao"
    title: "San Mao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%AF%9B%EF%BC%88%E4%BD%9C%E5%AE%B6%EF%BC%89"
    title: "三毛（作家）"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%AF%9B_(%E4%BD%9C%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "三毛 (作家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%AF%9B_(%E4%BD%9C%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "三毛 (作家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sanmao_(scrittrice)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%AF%9B_(%E4%BD%9C%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708679"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1722245"
    title: "Sanmao"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump