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\nYoko Sano returned to Bei\u00adjing in May 2007 to look for her for\u00admer res\u00adi\u00addence
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\nRemem\u00adber that beau\u00adti\u00adful white cat?
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\nCov\u00ader of The Cat Who Lived a Mil\u00adlion Times
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\nTime: 2:00 PM \u2014 4:00 PM, May 27, 2007
\nLoca\u00adtion: Room 2305, Cap\u00adi\u00adtal Library, Bei\u00adjing
\nSpon\u00adsor: Relay Press, Cap\u00adi\u00adtal Library Red Mud Read\u00ading Club
\nSpeak\u00aders: Yoko Sano, Tang Yam\u00ading
\nMain guests: Bai Bing, Huang Jiwei, Yang Suyin, Peng Yi, A Jia, Ikuko Ishikawa, Fumi\u00adnori Nakan\u00adishi
\nRecord\u00ading: Argen\u00adtine Primera Divisi\u00f3n
\n(Note: The fol\u00adlow\u00ading speech\u00ades by Yoko Sano and Ikuko Ishikawa were trans\u00adlat\u00aded and relayed by Tang Yam\u00ading.)
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\nYoko Sano and Tang Yam\u00ading recite \u201cThe Cat Who Lived a Mil\u00adlion Times.\u201d (Click to lis\u00adten, RM for\u00admat)<\/a><\/p>\n

 
\nYoko Sano: Bei\u00adjing is my home\u00adtown, I am a Bei\u00adjinger! (Said in Chi\u00adnese)
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Tang Yam\u00ading: I just intro\u00adduced it. Ms. Sano Yoko was born and raised in Bei\u00adjing until she was sev\u00aden years old, so she has a deep affec\u00adtion for the city. Eight years ago, she returned to Bei\u00adjing for the first time in over 50 years. I accom\u00adpa\u00adnied her that time to look for her old house. This time, I returned to Bei\u00adjing again to look for her old place, as well as to vis\u00adit Shun\u00adyi Coun\u00adty, where her father once worked and con\u00adduct\u00aded research in the coun\u00adtry\u00adside.
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Sano: I\u2019m old\u00ader than every\u00adone here. Bei\u00adjing has become a brand new city, but I know the old Bei\u00adjing of the past. In my mind, Bei\u00adjing is the most beau\u00adti\u00adful city in the world. I was incred\u00adi\u00adbly hap\u00adpy to come to the new Chi\u00adna, the brand new Bei\u00adjing. Back then, although Bei\u00adjing was incred\u00adi\u00adbly beau\u00adti\u00adful, peo\u00adple often froze to death and beg\u00adgars were found out\u00adside the Impe\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal City and at the doorsteps of shops. Now, these are gone. I\u2019m incred\u00adi\u00adbly hap\u00adpy. I love the new Chi\u00adna, the new Bei\u00adjing.<\/p>\n

When I was a child, I lived in a court\u00adyard house at No. 16, Koudai Hutong, Xicheng Dis\u00adtrict. Play\u00ading in the court\u00adyard, I would squat on the ground and look at the sky. It was square, so my mem\u00ado\u00adry of the sky has always been square. I loved Bei\u00adjing so much that we would watch the moon on the 15th of every lunar month, and many peo\u00adple would gath\u00ader at my house to watch the moon. The beau\u00adty of Bei\u00adjing\u2019s sky and moon from that time is some\u00adthing I will nev\u00ader for\u00adget.<\/p>\n

 My mem\u00ado\u00adry is very clear and vivid. I remem\u00adber that water was very scarce in Bei\u00adjing at the time. Every day, water sell\u00aders came to sell water in wood\u00aden bar\u00adrels, cart\u00aded to every house\u00adhold. One day, when I was a child, I was play\u00ading on the side of the road and pulled the cork out of the bar\u00adrel. The water spilled out. The sell\u00ader got angry and chased me, fol\u00adlow\u00ading me wher\u00adev\u00ader I went. I was ter\u00adri\u00adfied. I remem\u00adber it very clear\u00adly.<\/p>\n

At that time, our Chi\u00adnese neigh\u00adbor had a duck, and it would often chase me in the alley. The duck\u00ad\u2019s beak was just at the height of my ear, so I was very scared when it chased me.<\/p>\n

My child\u00adhood mem\u00ado\u00adries are all about Bei\u00adjing, noth\u00ading else. Back then, my par\u00adents often took us to the Tem\u00adple of Heav\u00aden. I remem\u00adbered the roofs of the build\u00adings there as green, but lat\u00ader, Tang Yam\u00ading said they weren\u2019t, that they were blue or pur\u00adple. I insist\u00aded they were green. Why the dif\u00adfer\u00adence? I final\u00adly under\u00adstood. One day, we went to the Tem\u00adple of Heav\u00aden, and I dis\u00adcov\u00adered that the blue roofs actu\u00adal\u00adly looked green from below. My world was so low then. From a child\u2019s per\u00adspec\u00adtive, the roofs of the Tem\u00adple of Heav\u00aden looked green. If you don\u2019t believe me, go and see. It\u2019s green from below, blue from above.<\/p>\n

Tang Yam\u00ading told me the cor\u00adrect col\u00ador, thank you very much!
\nMy father loved Chi\u00adna dear\u00adly. He stud\u00adied Chi\u00adnese his\u00adto\u00adry in col\u00adlege and always want\u00aded to vis\u00adit. He came to Chi\u00adna before the war. He joined the Manchuri\u00adan Rail\u00adway\u2019s Research Depart\u00adment to learn about rur\u00adal Chi\u00adna, a career he devot\u00aded almost his entire life to. How\u00adev\u00ader, he passed away short\u00adly after the war. For var\u00adi\u00adous rea\u00adsons, I nev\u00ader made it to Chi\u00adna. But I\u2019ve always dreamed of vis\u00adit\u00ading the rur\u00adal areas of Chi\u00adna where my father once worked.<\/p>\n

This time, I was par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly eager to vis\u00adit the rur\u00adal area of those days. We made detailed prepa\u00adra\u00adtions, gath\u00ader\u00ading pho\u00adtos from that time, pic\u00adtures of rur\u00adal fam\u00adi\u00adlies, and all the infor\u00adma\u00adtion on every\u00adone we had inter\u00adviewed. We went to Sha\u00adjing Vil\u00adlage in Shun\u00adyi Coun\u00adty. When we arrived, it was already a sea of build\u00adings! But after some search\u00ading, we unex\u00adpect\u00aded\u00adly found the peo\u00adple my father had inter\u00adviewed. Some of them were still alive. Some\u00adone who was 18 years old back then is now over 80 and still very much alive. We met two peo\u00adple who had seen my father back then, and also met an old woman with bound feet who had cooked for him back then. She was his 20-year-old daugh\u00adter-in-law back then. I was deeply sur\u00adprised and delight\u00aded to see them.<\/p>\n

So I have a very deep affec\u00adtion for Chi\u00adna, but it is a pity that I can\u00adnot speak Chi\u00adnese. If I could speak Chi\u00adnese, I would be Chi\u00adnese now.
\nMy son often says I\u2019m very head\u00adstrong, that I always do what I want, no mat\u00adter what any\u00adone says. He says that the Japan\u00adese have the impres\u00adsion that Chi\u00adnese peo\u00adple always act accord\u00ading to their own ideas. I don\u2019t see this impres\u00adsion as a flaw at all; I think it\u2019s a strength, so I\u2019ve always fol\u00adlowed my own path and done things my way.
\n <\/p>\n

Tang: Ms. Sano has cre\u00adat\u00aded numer\u00adous excel\u00adlent works. She is arguably one of Japan\u2019s most cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00aded pic\u00adture book writ\u00aders. Besides \u201cThe Cat Who Lived a Mil\u00adlion Times,\u201d she has many oth\u00ader excel\u00adlent books. She is also one of Japan\u2019s best-sell\u00ading pic\u00adture book authors. Let\u2019s change the sub\u00adject and ask her to talk about pic\u00adture books and chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture. She is also an excep\u00adtion\u00adal prose writer and has writ\u00adten numer\u00adous books for adults.
\n <\/p>\n

Sano: I\u2019ve done a lot of work and cre\u00adat\u00aded a lot of works in my life. From now on, I don\u2019t want to cre\u00adate any\u00admore. I want to rest and sleep well. Because Japan\u00adese peo\u00adple work too much. I want to enjoy life slow\u00adly.
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Peng Yi: Let me start with a more relaxed ques\u00adtion. In Shang\u00adhai, there was a two-year-old child who seemed bare\u00adly able to speak. He could only say \u201cno, no, no,\u201d mean\u00ading \u201cno.\u201d He had been read\u00ading this pic\u00adture book (\u201cThe Cat Who Lived a Mil\u00adlion Times\u201d). One day, he turned to this page (the one with the close-up of the white cat) with his moth\u00ader, and asked her to speak. Then he turned to the next page, and he start\u00aded say\u00ading \u201cno, no, no, no,\u201d (turn\u00ading anoth\u00ader page), \u201cno, no, no, no.\u201d Do you under\u00adstand what I mean? Look, on this page, the white cat has whiskers, but after the white cat and the black cat suc\u00adcess\u00adful\u00adly mar\u00adry, the white cat los\u00ades its whiskers. They won\u00addered if the white cat became gen\u00adtler after the mar\u00adriage and lost its whiskers? But if you look close\u00adly, you see, the whiskers are back! But when it dies, it\u2019s whisker\u00adless. I know that chil\u00addren are more gift\u00aded at read\u00ading pic\u00adture books than adults. But I\u2019d like to ask Mr. Sano, has any\u00adone in Japan noticed this? And what exact\u00adly is going on? We know that the book \u201cLit\u00adtle Mouse\u2019s Vest\u201d had a flaw: the artist for\u00adgot to add whiskers, leav\u00ading the cat miss\u00ading from the front and back. Lat\u00ader, this mis\u00adtake became a famous one, but I\u2019d like to ask, why does\u00adn\u2019t the white cat have whiskers? Is it because after mar\u00adriage, when white cats find love, they become more gen\u00adtle?
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Sano: Short\u00adly after the book was pub\u00adlished in Japan, some chil\u00addren point\u00aded out the lack of a beard. But hon\u00adest\u00adly, I did\u00adn\u2019t notice it, nor did the edi\u00adtor, and no adults noticed. By the time any\u00adone noticed, it was too late. This child is incred\u00adi\u00adbly bright and more obser\u00advant than adults. I believe the child I men\u00adtioned will sure\u00adly become a genius. So, just as there are no per\u00adfect peo\u00adple, no work is per\u00adfect. I\u2019m tru\u00adly sor\u00adry!
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Peng Yi: So this has become a famous mistake\u2014or rather, a famous act of ten\u00adder\u00adness! I have anoth\u00ader ques\u00adtion. I often give pic\u00adture book pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtions across the coun\u00adtry. A few days ago, when I was giv\u00ading a talk on this pic\u00adture book in Hangzhou, I told every\u00adone: Mar\u00adried women, make sure your hus\u00adband reads this book to you in front of you! I orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly meant it as a joke, but there was actu\u00adal\u00adly a uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty pro\u00adfes\u00adsor, a very beau\u00adti\u00adful woman, who had her hus\u00adband read the book aloud in front of her. After the read\u00ading, she sent me a text mes\u00adsage say\u00ading, \u201cMy hus\u00adband nev\u00ader reads, let alone pic\u00adture books, but he cried after read\u00ading this book. He was so moved.\u201d She said, \u201cPic\u00adture books real\u00adly do have such tremen\u00addous pow\u00ader.\u201d I\u2019d like to ask, are there any mar\u00adried women in Japan who have their hus\u00adbands read this book to them?
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\nSano: I\u2019m sor\u00adry, I don\u2019t know if there is (laughs)\u2026 But I heard that lovers often give each oth\u00ader this book as a gift.
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Ajia: I\u2019m Ajia from Hong\u00adni\u00adba. I was so hap\u00adpy to hear you were com\u00ading to Bei\u00adjing. I told my daugh\u00adter, who\u2019s sev\u00aden years old, that the artist who paint\u00aded \u201cThe Cat Who Lived a Mil\u00adlion Times\u201d is com\u00ading to Bei\u00adjing. She\u2019s here today too. She asked, \u201cWhat did the artist look like?\u201d I think many of us, after read\u00ading this book, are very curi\u00adous about this ques\u00adtion. In my mind, Yoko Sano is a woman as beau\u00adti\u00adful as that gor\u00adgeous white cat. Isn\u2019t that right? (Yoko Sano smiles and says, \u201cI\u2019m so sor\u00adry!\u201d) This ques\u00adtion con\u00adcerns my daugh\u00adter. I\u2019ve read about your life. You left Bei\u00adjing around the age of sev\u00aden, right? That\u2019s about the age my daugh\u00adter is now. And after read\u00ading your work, I\u2019ve been won\u00adder\u00ading: to what extent do child\u00adhood mem\u00ado\u00adries influ\u00adence the cre\u00adation of chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture, espe\u00adcial\u00adly pic\u00adture books? Or, for you, how much influ\u00adence do these child\u00adhood mem\u00ado\u00adries have on your cre\u00adative process? We are also here today with some Chi\u00adnese writ\u00aders and painters who are cre\u00adat\u00ading pic\u00adture books. I also hope you can intro\u00adduce what we should do if we want to cre\u00adate the best works. Thank you!
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Sano: I don\u2019t have many bril\u00adliant the\u00ado\u00adries to share or teach oth\u00aders; I\u2019m not qual\u00adi\u00adfied to do so. Fur\u00adther\u00admore, I don\u2019t know how or why these mem\u00ado\u00adries and expe\u00adri\u00adences from my child\u00adhood direct\u00adly influ\u00adence my work. To be hon\u00adest, I\u2019m not entire\u00adly sure. How\u00adev\u00ader, I can only say that I pour every\u00adthing in my life into my work, burn\u00ading with it. I believe that peo\u00adple don\u2019t live to work, but work to live. You could say I had a very hap\u00adpy child\u00adhood, or you could say I had a very unhap\u00adpy one. Both have influ\u00adenced me. Every\u00adone has dif\u00adfer\u00adent expe\u00adri\u00adences, and life is unique. As long as you live and work with all your might and ded\u00adi\u00adca\u00adtion, it will be mean\u00ading\u00adful. No one is exact\u00adly the same. No mat\u00adter what life you find your\u00adself in, you are dif\u00adfer\u00adent, and every dif\u00adfer\u00adence has val\u00adue.
\n <\/p>\n

A\u2011League: I find your mem\u00ado\u00adries of your child\u00adhood in Bei\u00adjing so beau\u00adti\u00adful. Do you plan to express these mem\u00ado\u00adries in the form of a pic\u00adture book? Is there an oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty for us to enjoy such a work?
\n <\/p>\n

Sano: I\u2019m cur\u00adrent\u00adly think\u00ading of writ\u00ading what will be my final book. It\u2019s about the square sky I saw as a child in my Bei\u00adjing court\u00adyard house. It\u2019s about final\u00adly step\u00adping out of the court\u00adyard for the first time and see\u00ading the out\u00adside world. I want to cap\u00adture that feel\u00ading in pic\u00adture book form.
\n <\/p>\n

Ikuko Ishikawa: I\u2019m Ishikawa from the Bei\u00adjing office of Baiyang\u00adshe and Bei\u00adjing Poplar Com\u00adpa\u00adny. Poplar has also pub\u00adlished books by Ms. Sano. I\u2019ve loved her pic\u00adture books since I was a child, like \u201cMy Hat.\u201d Ms. Sano\u2019s books often fea\u00adture cats, but I\u2019ve heard she says she does\u00adn\u2019t like cats. Is that true?
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Sano: The book \u201cMy Hat\u201d that Ms. Ishikawa men\u00adtioned ear\u00adli\u00ader has\u00adn\u2019t been trans\u00adlat\u00aded and pub\u00adlished in Chi\u00adna yet, but it\u2019s actu\u00adal\u00adly based on the child\u00adhood mem\u00ado\u00adries of my broth\u00ader and I play\u00ading at the Bei\u00adjing Zoo. Based on pho\u00adtos from those days, it\u2019s a very impor\u00adtant work for me, and I hope it can be trans\u00adlat\u00aded and pub\u00adlished in Chi\u00adna. You also asked about cats. Nowa\u00addays, every\u00adone calls me a cat painter, but that\u2019s main\u00adly because my cat paint\u00adings sell well. If I had paint\u00aded dogs back then, every\u00adone would have called me a dog painter. Hon\u00adest\u00adly, I don\u2019t like cats, but why do I paint them even though I don\u2019t like them? Because I think cats are eas\u00adi\u00ader to draw than dogs. I\u2019m not a good dog painter, so I just paint cats. It\u2019s sim\u00adple.
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Ishikawa: Ms. Sano\u2019s answer just now was very humor\u00adous and mod\u00adest. She may not have direct\u00adly addressed her sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion, but I real\u00adly like her way of speak\u00ading. I know her works con\u00adtain many mes\u00adsages for chil\u00addren, which can be inter\u00adpret\u00aded from many per\u00adspec\u00adtives. She also illus\u00adtrat\u00aded many books about elder\u00adly women. Some\u00adtimes these women seem a bit dom\u00adi\u00adneer\u00ading and annoy\u00ading, but they are also very human and inter\u00adest\u00ading. After read\u00ading these books, I can\u2019t let them go, and I keep think\u00ading about them. Both chil\u00addren and adults can gain deep feel\u00adings from them. Pic\u00adture book pub\u00adlish\u00ading in Chi\u00adna may be just begin\u00adning, and many authors are cre\u00adat\u00ading excel\u00adlent books for chil\u00addren. So, I\u2019d like to ask, when you draw books, do you think about chil\u00addren or adults? I\u2019d real\u00adly like to hear your insights from a writer\u2019s per\u00adspec\u00adtive and from a cre\u00adative stand\u00adpoint.
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Sano: All of my chil\u00addren\u2019s pic\u00adture books are designed for chil\u00addren, nev\u00ader for adults. While many adults have been moved by them and praised them, I did\u00adn\u2019t cre\u00adate them for adults sim\u00adply to impress them. That\u2019s nev\u00ader been the case. For exam\u00adple, some peo\u00adple say that chil\u00addren can\u2019t under\u00adstand the illus\u00adtra\u00adtions in our work, but adults can. How\u00adev\u00ader, I can say that, like read\u00ading Grim\u00adm\u2019s Fairy Tales, there are many sto\u00adries and plots in them that I still don\u2019t under\u00adstand. For exam\u00adple, why the frog turned into a prince, and why the princess mar\u00adried the frog prince\u2014I still don\u2019t under\u00adstand why. Just because \u201cchil\u00addren don\u2019t under\u00adstand\u201d does\u00adn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not a chil\u00addren\u2019s book. If chil\u00addren don\u2019t under\u00adstand, adults don\u2019t under\u00adstand either. It does\u00adn\u2019t mean that books that chil\u00addren don\u2019t under\u00adstand are suit\u00adable for adults. Chil\u00addren\u2019s books should\u00adn\u2019t be judged by that stan\u00addard.
\n <\/p>\n

Bai Bing: I had a long con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion with Mr. Sano the night before yes\u00adter\u00adday, so I don\u2019t have any ques\u00adtions myself today. We have many chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture writ\u00aders and illus\u00adtra\u00adtors here today, and I\u2019d like to ask a ques\u00adtion on their behalf. Mr. Sano, for chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture writ\u00aders, if we want to cre\u00adate a mas\u00adter\u00adpiece like \u201cThe Cat Who Lived a Mil\u00adlion Times,\u201d what prepa\u00adra\u00adtions should we make? Or, in oth\u00ader words, what areas should we focus on? Also, could you please share a few words with young Chi\u00adnese chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture writ\u00aders?
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Sano: The era I lived in is dif\u00adfer\u00adent from the present. I had my past, and today\u2019s young peo\u00adple have their own. I hope Chi\u00adnese painters don\u2019t just repeat our work, but instead cre\u00adate new\u00ader, more chal\u00adleng\u00ading works. I\u2019m a per\u00adson of the past, and I hope young artists will cre\u00adate new works that will be loved by Chi\u00adnese chil\u00addren.
\n <\/p>\n

Read\u00ader 1: I have two ques\u00adtions. I\u2019m an ele\u00admen\u00adtary school teacher, and I\u2019d like to ask a ques\u00adtion about the book first. Teacher Peng Yi just asked about whiskers, and I just saw a ques\u00adtion about eyes. In the book, when the cat trans\u00adforms into a wild\u00adcat, its eyes are green. What\u2019s the spe\u00adcial mean\u00ading of this? Every\u00adthing else is blue, and yes, the cov\u00ader is green.
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\nSano: Because a cat\u2019s eye col\u00ador changes depend\u00ading on the light, time, day or night.
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\nRead\u00ader 1: Chil\u00addren\u2019s Day is com\u00ading soon. I would like to ask Mr. Sano to say a few words and give some advice to Chi\u00adnese chil\u00addren.
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Sano: I\u2019ve had a lot of com\u00adplaints and con\u00adcerns about Japan\u00adese chil\u00addren in Japan. But when I see Chi\u00adnese chil\u00addren on the streets and in var\u00adi\u00adous sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions, I feel there\u2019s noth\u00ading to wor\u00adry about. They\u2019re very hap\u00adpy and well-edu\u00adcat\u00aded, so I hope Chi\u00adnese chil\u00addren can grow up health\u00adi\u00ader. That\u2019s what I say.
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Read\u00ader 2: Hel\u00adlo, Mr. Sano! I just fin\u00adished read\u00ading your book this after\u00adnoon. It felt like a nov\u00adel, with vivid char\u00adac\u00adters and a rich\u00adly com\u00adplex plot. I felt like there was so much to it, like watch\u00ading a per\u00adson grow from child\u00adhood to youth and then to old age. You men\u00adtioned that your pic\u00adture books are writ\u00adten for chil\u00addren. I\u2019d like to know, rough\u00adly what age group do you write for? Also, was there a direct inspi\u00adra\u00adtion for each of these books? For exam\u00adple, you men\u00adtioned that the inspi\u00adra\u00adtion for \u201cMy Hat\u201d came from see\u00ading a pho\u00adto at the zoo. Was there a direct source of inspi\u00adra\u00adtion for this work?
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Sano: Let\u2019s answer the first ques\u00adtion first. What age group would you say this book is intend\u00aded for? Any\u00adway, I think the con\u00adcept of \u201cdesigned for a cer\u00adtain age group\u201d is wrong. Every child is dif\u00adfer\u00adent, with dif\u00adfer\u00adent upbring\u00adings, phys\u00adi\u00adcal con\u00addi\u00adtions, and so on. They all expe\u00adri\u00adence things dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly, so I don\u2019t think the con\u00adcept of \u201cdesigned for a cer\u00adtain age group\u201d is cor\u00adrect.<\/p>\n

 I wrote this book when my chil\u00addren were still young. I\u2019d always keep a pen and paper by my pil\u00adlow, jot\u00adting down any inspi\u00adra\u00adtion I had. Then one day, the idea of a cat that sur\u00advived a mil\u00adlion attempts sud\u00adden\u00adly popped into my head, and I wrote the entire sto\u00adry down to the end. It was a seam\u00adless book. So, I\u2019m a genius, too.
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Read\u00ader 3: Hel\u00adlo, Mr. Sano. I\u2019m a reporter for Pub\u00adlish\u00ader mag\u00ada\u00adzine, and I have a ques\u00adtion for you. I read your book many years ago, and my first impres\u00adsion was, \u201cHow won\u00adder\u00adful it would be if I could find the love of my life.\u201d I\u2019d like to ask you, have you found love? My sec\u00adond ques\u00adtion is, I\u2019ve also read your books \u201cFive-Year-Old Grand\u00adma Goes Fish\u00ading\u201d and \u201cGrand\u00adpa\u2019s Umbrel\u00adla,\u201d which depict the mind\u00adsets of many elder\u00adly people\u2014some very endear\u00ading, some annoy\u00ading, yet endear\u00ading. I won\u00adder if you share the same con\u00adfu\u00adsion and reflec\u00adtions on aging. Final\u00adly, could you briefly intro\u00adduce the artists and schools of thought that have influ\u00adenced your artis\u00adtic devel\u00adop\u00adment?
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Sano: Because love is often like this: when you first fall in love, you think it\u2019s real love, but after three years, you real\u00adize it\u2019s not. In that sense, I\u2019ve expe\u00adri\u00adenced true love many times in my life. I only now under\u00adstand that this book actu\u00adal\u00adly reflects a wish of mine\u2014a per\u00adson\u00adal wish.<\/p>\n

 When I wrote the book about the grand\u00admoth\u00ader, I was actu\u00adal\u00adly in my 30s, and it reflects my thoughts at the time. But now that I\u2019m tru\u00adly elder\u00adly, I won\u00adder why young peo\u00adple don\u2019t under\u00adstand the feel\u00adings of the elder\u00adly. Why are they so unrea\u00adson\u00adable? Why do they have such dif\u00adfer\u00adent ideas? The elder\u00adly I cre\u00adat\u00aded back then were actu\u00adal\u00adly very ide\u00adal\u00adis\u00adtic images of the elder\u00adly. But after becom\u00ading an elder\u00adly myself, I real\u00adized that ideals and real\u00adi\u00adty are often dif\u00adfer\u00adent. So, please respect the elder\u00adly and let them enjoy a good old age.<\/p>\n

 (Regard\u00ading the third ques\u00adtion) I can hon\u00adest\u00adly say that I haven\u2019t been influ\u00adenced by any\u00adone. Per\u00adhaps this state\u00adment might come across as arro\u00adgance. In fact, some peo\u00adple have said that I don\u2019t have the abil\u00adi\u00adty to be influ\u00adenced by oth\u00aders. I don\u2019t know whether this is good or bad, but the truth is, I haven\u2019t been influ\u00adenced by any\u00adone. I haven\u2019t been influ\u00adenced by any\u00adone.
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\nRead\u00ader 4: I would like to ask Mr. Sano, who was your first read\u00ader? What were his feel\u00adings and reac\u00adtions?
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Sano: My book\u2019s first read\u00ader was an edi\u00adtor, who gave it a very neg\u00ada\u00adtive review. And ini\u00adtial\u00adly, it did\u00adn\u2019t sell at all. (Note: The book did sell only 5,000 copies in its first 10 years, and after 10 years, it was reprint\u00aded in batch\u00ades of 50,000 copies each time.)
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Read\u00ader 5: Hel\u00adlo, Mr. Sano! Besides \u201cThe Cat Who Lived a Mil\u00adlion Times,\u201d you have many oth\u00ader works. Do you have an over\u00adall eval\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion of them now? Are you gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly sat\u00adis\u00adfied with them, or do you feel a lit\u00adtle dis\u00adsat\u00adis\u00adfied?
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\nSano: After I fin\u00adish illus\u00adtrat\u00ading a book, I usu\u00adal\u00adly feel embar\u00adrassed and don\u2019t want to read it again. There\u00adfore, I usu\u00adal\u00adly don\u2019t read the books that have been pub\u00adlished.
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Read\u00ader 6: I\u2019ve heard that chil\u00addren\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture writ\u00aders all have a child in their hearts, a child who nev\u00ader grows up, and they cre\u00adate for this child. But chil\u00addren in real life face many chal\u00adlenges, and in real life, they encounter many things. So, do you delib\u00ader\u00adate\u00adly pro\u00adtect the child in your heart, or do you let nature take its course and let things hap\u00adpen nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly?
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Sano: I believe that peo\u00adple can nev\u00ader become some\u00adone else, or any\u00adthing else. That\u2019s how I feel about my own child. I\u2019ve raised him, but I still don\u2019t under\u00adstand him, and I still can\u2019t make him me. So, every\u00adone has their own child\u00adhood, their own child\u00adhood, some\u00adthing only they can under\u00adstand and pos\u00adsess. I\u2019m not a kinder\u00adgarten teacher, and I don\u2019t often observe chil\u00addren, but in my heart, I do have my own child, my own lit\u00adtle child.
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