the Central People's Broadcasting Station. On April 4, 1991, his last comic book, "Cat Feeding Rats", was published in the Liberation Daily. In the winter of the same year, Zhang decided to donate the manuscript of San Mao to the Shanghai Art Museum. On 1992 September 27, Zhang Leping died in the Shanghai Huadong Hospital; he was 81 years old. The Sanmao comics were translated throughout his career and introduced to other countries. The character has also been the main attraction in a number of movies, cartoons and other forms of on stage theatricals. After death A public trial was held in 1997 in the First Intermediate People's Court of Shanghai to settle the lawsuit of who owned the rights to the Sanmao character and comics after the death of the author. The judgement was mostly in favour of the author's widow and children. The Zhang Leping Picture Book Award was founded in his honour in 2016. References External links Sanmao Official Website Tales of Old Shanghai: Newspapers and Periodicals, Cartoons 1910 births 1992 deaths Chinese comic strip cartoonists Chinese animators Artists from Jiaxing