Cheng'en Wu

The fanciful adventures of a Tang Dynasty priest, Sanzang, and his three disciples, Monkey, Pig, and Fiar Sand, as they search for a Buddhist Sutra.

Journey to the West

Wu Ch'eng-en

Wu Ch'eng-en wrote Monkey in the middle of the 16th century, adding to an ancient Chinese legend his own touches of delicacy and humour. The result is a jumble of the absurd and the profound, of religion and history, of anti-bureaucratic satire and pure poetry.

Monkey

Nicholas Hanemann

Relentlessly jocular, lacks anything that could really be called emotionally compelling.

Journey to the West

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