Wanderings of San Mao (Chinese:三毛流浪记) is aChinese animated series in China based on the famousmanhua characterSanmao. The series was invested, produced and broadcast byCCTV. It is also known asStory of San Mao's Vagrant Life orNew Adventures of San Mao.

Wanderings of Sanmao
Country of origin	China Thailand
No. of episodes	26
Original release
Network	CCTV True Spark
Release	2006 (2006) – present

A 1-minute English clip of the series can be found inYouTube.^[1]

The main character of the animation,Sanmao, has been around since the 1930s among comic books in China. The character recently celebrated its 70th birthday in 2005, and this series is one of the many tributes to the longevity of San Mao.^[2] Other productions have taken place in the past including movies, stage plays, soap opera series and puppet films. This series is different from the 1984 cartoon of the same name.

San Mao was a very poor orphan. He was wandering inShanghai where people dreamed of riches in the 1930s. Sanmao, together with his baldheaded friend Xiao Laizi received grain unexpectedly from the entrepreneur Wu Zifu. Later he fell into a coma mysteriously, and the reporter Hou Yiwen would try to investigate the relationship between Wu Zifu and San Mao.^[3]

• San Mao Official Site
• Chinese Film Classics (chinesefilmclassics.org) - scholarly website containing English-subtitled copy of the 1949 live-action Sanmao filmWandering of Three-Hairs the Orphan