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Title: Monkey King: Journey to the West
Author: CH’ENG-EN WU
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 18/05/2021
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9780141393445
Pages: 352