The Rise of the Monkey King
- Authors
- Jeff Pepper & Xiao Hui Wang
- Publisher
- Imagin8 Press
- Tags
- monkey king , pinyin , story , sun wukong , chinese
- ISBN
- 9781952601057
- Date
- 2017-07-24T05:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.61 MB
- Lang
- en
"The Rise of the Monkey King" is the first book in the multi-volume "Journey to the West" series of stories by Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang. Other titles include "Trouble in Heaven", "The Immortal Peaches" and "The Young Monk".
Sun Wukong, the Handsome Monkey King, is one of most famous characters in Chinese literature and culture. His legendary bravery, his foolish mistakes, his sharp-tongued commentary and his yearning for immortality and spiritual knowledge have inspired hundreds of books, television shows, graphic novels, video games and films.
The full story of Sun Wukong's adventures is told in Journey To The West, an epic 2,000 page novel written in the 16th Century by Wu Cheng'en. Journey To The West is probably the most famous and best-loved novel in China and is considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. Its place in Chinese literature is roughly comparable to Homer's epic poem The Odyssey in Western literature. Wikipedia...