Monkey King: Journey to the West
Author(s): Wu Ch'eng-en
One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu Monkey King called Sun Wukong; a rice-loving divine pig; and a depressive man-eating river-sand monster. Comparable to The Canterbury Tales or Don Quixote, the tale is at once a comic adventure story, a humorous satire of Chinese bureaucracy, a spring of spiritual insight and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeys towards enlightenment.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin
- : 0.56699
- : 01 May 2021
- : 3.5 Centimeters X 13.8 Centimeters X 20.4 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Wu Ch'eng-en
- : Hardback
- : English
- : 384
- : FC
- : Julia Lovell