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A repository for research on the great 16th-century chinese classic, archive #11 – pdfs of the journey to the west 2012 revised edition.

Note : The additional archived translations have been moved to a new location. See the 08-09-23 update below.

Last updated : 08-09-2023

Here I present PDFs comprising the complete four volume 2012 revised edition of The Journey to the West translated by Anthony C. Yu. This is considered THE most accurate translation of the tale available. I hope those who read and enjoy the digital version will support the official release.

Anthon C. Yu (October 6, 1938 – May 12, 2015) was  Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Literature in the  Chicago Divinity School . I shared a long email correspondence with Prof. Yu, during which we became friends. He was always quick to answer my many questions. His translation remains a treasure trove of explanatory notes and sources.

1. Book blurb

Anthony C. Yu’s translation of  The Journey to the West , initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time […] With over a hundred chapters written in both prose and poetry,  The Journey to the West  has always been a complicated and difficult text to render in English while preserving the lyricism of its language and the content of its plot. But Yu has successfully taken on the task, and in this new edition he has made his translations even more accurate and accessible. The explanatory notes are updated and augmented, and Yu has added new material to his introduction, based on his original research as well as on the newest literary criticism and scholarship on Chinese religious traditions. He has also modernized the transliterations included in each volume, using the now-standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization system. Perhaps most important, Yu has made changes to the translation itself in order to make it as precise as possible ( source ).

2. PDF Files

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The cover of volume one ( larger version ).

Update : 03-01-22

I’ve archived a scan of the original Chinese version of the 1592 edition of the novel.

Archive #31 – The Original 1592 Edition of Journey to the West, Complete with Pictures

Update : 07-26-23

I have archived the first complete 1835 Japanese translation of JTTW. It includes amazing woodblock prints.

Archive #41 – PDFs of The Illustrated Journey to the West (Ehon Saiyuki, 繪本西遊記, 1835)

Update : 08-09-23

I have archived a list of other foreign language translations of Journey to the West , including complete and abridged editions.

  • English (W. J. F. Jenner and Arthur Waley)
Archive #42 – PDFs of Journey to the West Translations

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thanks for posting these! any chance you can post epubs as well?

Much appreciated for sharing these.

Volumes 1 and 4 have all the poems cut off on the right margin… sadness… Is there any chance you might post these again without this error?

My copy has the same thing. However, the letters are still there, just not visible. If you copy the poems and paste them into Word or an email, you can see them. I’m not sure why they are cut off like that.

What I’ve heard is that it’s because a pdf leaves certain margins in the document that aren’t always present in the original document, usually for printing convenience. Google tells me you can fix it by setting a custom page size like mentioned here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/text-cuts-off-left-and-right-when-i-print-or-save/52b64dc4-2c99-4e7b-94d8-e61c426b2a62 , though I don’t know if that’s exactly the problem you’re having, or if you can do that with an epub. If you have the time, you could test it out. I would, but word isn’t properly converting the pdf to an editable format for me.

I have updated the PDFs.

Thank you sooo much! They are really helpful!

Hello there! I’d be interested to know if you have any information on the Chinese illustrated “comics” from the 60s/70s? I believe they had English translations as well. I grew up with them and now have idea how to track them down.

Note: I wonder if the covers of the Yu editions may be from those comics?

Are you talking about manhua or the smaller lianhuanhua comics? I know there have been many.

The covers from Yu’s edition are illustrations from a Qing-era edition of the novel.

https://journeytothewestresearch.com/2021/02/07/archive-20-qing-period-color-illustrated-complete-edition-of-journey-to-the-west/

Hi! I read the beginning of Chapter 2 in Volume One in which Monkey dances with excitement at least a few times. That leads me to wonder: does he have autism, is it just a monkey thing, or is it something that represents his childlike state of mind before he eventually grows out of it? What are your thoughts?

I think Sun was just excited by what he heard. Remember that his species is known as the “Stone Monkey of Numinous Wisdom” (Lingming shihou, 靈明石猴). The term “numinous wisdom” (lingming, 靈明) refers to religious or spiritual knowledge. This allows him to understand the deep spiritual subjects that Subodhi teaches.

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  • Journey To The West Chapter 96.1 : Mission Part 1
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 94.1 : Subduing The Root Of Destruction Part 1
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 93.1 : Resurrection Of An Ancient God Part 1
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 90.1 : The Thing That Cannot Be Done In The Underworld Part 1
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 87.1 : Eternal Gratitude Part 1
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 85.1 : Corrupted Stars
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 84.1 : Slumbering Ancient God Part 1
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 83.2
  • Journey To The West Chapter 83.1 : Sun Wu Kong And Vaisravana
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 82.5 : Ancient City (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 82.2 : Ancient City (Part 2)
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 82 : Ancient City (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 81.5 : A Deadly Curse (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 81.2 : A Deadly Curse (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 81.1 : A Deadly Curse (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 81 : A Deadly Curse (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 80.5 : Unrelenting Wind And Dust (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 80.2 : Unrelenting Wind And Dust (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 80.1 : Unrelenting Wind And Dust (Part 1)
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 79.2 : Servant Of The Underworld King (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 79.1 : Servant Of The Underworld King (Part 1)
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 78.2 : The Heavens Torn Apart, Two Sides Fight To The Death (Part 2)
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 77.5 : The Heavens Torn Apart, Two Sides Fight To The Death (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 77.2 : The Heavens Torn Apart, Two Sides Fight To The Death (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 77.1 : The Heavens Torn Apart, Two Sides Fight To The Death (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 77 : The Heavens Torn Apart, Two Sides Fight To The Death (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 76.5 : A Different Heaven Palace (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 76.2 : A Different Heaven Palace (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 76.1 : A Different Heaven Palace (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 76 : A Different Heaven Palace (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 75.5 : Havoc In Heaven (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 75.2 : Havoc In Heaven (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 75.1 : Havoc In Heaven (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 75 : Havoc In Heaven (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 74.5 : The Attacking Tiger (Part 6.2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 74.2 : The Attacking Tiger (Part 6.2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 74.1 : The Attacking Tiger (Part 6.1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 74 : The Attacking Tiger (Part 6.1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 73.5
  • Journey To The West Chapter 73.2 : An Attacking Tiger (Part 5.2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 73.1 : An Attacking Tiger (Part 5.1)
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 72.5
  • Journey To The West Chapter 72.2 : An Attacking Tiger (Part 4.2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 72.1 : An Attacking Tiger (Part 4.1)
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 71.2 : The Attacking Tiger (Part 3.2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 71.1 : The Attacking Tiger (Part 3.1)
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 70.5
  • Journey To The West Chapter 70.2 : The Attacking Tiger (Part 2.2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 70.1 : The Attacking Tiger (Part 2.1)
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 69.5
  • Journey To The West Chapter 69.2 : The Attacking Tiger (Part 1.2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 69.1 : The Attacking Tiger (Part 1.1)
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 68.5
  • Journey To The West Chapter 68.2 : The Flying Dragon That Shines Golden Light (Part 3.2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 68.1 : The Flying Dragon That Shines Golden Light (Part 3.1)
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 67.5
  • Journey To The West Chapter 67.2 : The Flying Dragon That Shines Golden Light (Part 2.2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 67.1 : The Flying Dragon That Shines Golden Light (Part 2.1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 67
  • Journey To The West Chapter 66.1
  • Journey To The West Chapter 66 : The Flying Dragon That Shines Golden Light
  • Journey To The West Chapter 65.5 : Gautama's Second Task (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 65.2 : Gautama's Second Task (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 65.1
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  • Journey To The West Chapter 64.5 : The Mad Fist Of Mercy (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 64.2 : The Mad Fist Of Mercy (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 64.1 : The Mad Fist Of Mercy (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 64 : The Mad Fist Of Mercy (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 63.5 : The Everchanging Undefeated Ape King (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 63.2 : The Everchanging Undefeated Ape King (Part 2)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 63.1 : The Everchanging Undefeated Ape King (Part 1)
  • Journey To The West Chapter 63
  • Journey To The West Chapter 62 : The Mad King's Magic Blade
  • Journey To The West Chapter 61 : Battle Soul
  • Journey To The West Chapter 60 : Fallen God
  • Journey To The West Chapter 59 : A Reckless Plunge Into The Asura Kingdom
  • Journey To The West Chapter 58 : For Love
  • Journey To The West Chapter 57 : Advance Of The Insane Ox
  • Journey To The West Chapter 56 : Berserk
  • Journey To The West Chapter 55 : Searching For Feathers
  • Journey To The West Chapter 54 : Deep Into The Secret Valley Of Death
  • Journey To The West Chapter 53 : The Ox King And The Wasp Queen
  • Journey To The West Chapter 52 : The Great Sage Equaling Heaven
  • Journey To The West Chapter 51 : The Stone-Encased God-Ape
  • Journey To The West Chapter 50 : The Wild Bull's Castle
  • Journey To The West Chapter 49 : Dhritarashtra's Painstaking Effort
  • Journey To The West Chapter 48 : The Ancient Dragon's Secret
  • Journey To The West Chapter 47 : A Decisive Battle Between The Two Heavenly Kings
  • Journey To The West Chapter 46 : She Who Defied Fate
  • Journey To The West Chapter 45 : Tang San Zang's Godlike Death Defying Skill
  • Journey To The West Chapter 44
  • Journey To The West Chapter 43 : The Giant Bird And The Dragon
  • Journey To The West Chapter 42 : Iron Steel Body
  • Journey To The West Chapter 41 : Giant Country
  • Journey To The West Chapter 40 : Towards An Unfathomable Future
  • Journey To The West Chapter 39 : The Merciless Trial
  • Journey To The West Chapter 38 : Reason
  • Journey To The West Chapter 37 : Goodbye Son Wu Kong
  • Journey To The West Chapter 36 : Boundless Transformation
  • Journey To The West Chapter 35 : Revival Of The Ape King
  • Journey To The West Chapter 34 : Meeting After A Long Separation
  • Journey To The West Chapter 33 : The Unrivaled Knight
  • Journey To The West Chapter 32 : The Graveyard Guardian
  • Journey To The West Chapter 31 : Heaven's Strongest Knight
  • Journey To The West Chapter 30 : The Undefeated Knight
  • Journey To The West Chapter 29 : The Worst Decision
  • Journey To The West Chapter 28 : A Choice
  • Journey To The West Chapter 27 : The Southern Ocean Dragon Clan
  • Journey To The West Chapter 26 : The Death Of Sun Wu Kong
  • Journey To The West Chapter 25 : The King Of Sand Enters The War
  • Journey To The West Chapter 24 : Shifu, Forever And Always
  • Journey To The West Chapter 23 : The Heavenly King Dhritarashtra
  • Journey To The West Chapter 22 : Amnesia
  • Journey To The West Chapter 21 : The River Of Flowing Sand
  • Journey To The West Chapter 20 : The King Of Pigs Enters The War
  • Journey To The West Chapter 19 : The Revival Of Fangs
  • Journey To The West Chapter 18 : Something That Never Fades Away
  • Journey To The West Chapter 17 : The King Of Pigs
  • Journey To The West Chapter 16 : Departure
  • Journey To The West Chapter 15 : Gautama Buddha Came To Help The Journey
  • Journey To The West Chapter 14 : Thousand Hands, Thousand Eyes, The God Among Gods, Limitless And Endless Rotating Seal
  • Journey To The West Chapter 13 : Soul Awakening
  • Journey To The West Chapter 12 : Hell Chanting
  • Journey To The West Chapter 11 : A Different Color
  • Journey To The West Chapter 10 : The Trail Of Demons
  • Journey To The West Chapter 9 : The Sinful White Dragon Horse
  • Journey To The West Chapter 8 : Entering And Leaving Society
  • Journey To The West Chapter 7 : Not For The People But For Myself
  • Journey To The West Chapter 6 : Undying Heart
  • Journey To The West Chapter 5 : Searching For The Grand Master, Tang Sangzan
  • Journey To The West Chapter 4 : The Legend Of The White Wolf's Beginnings
  • Journey To The West Chapter 3 : Secret Of The Sutra
  • Journey To The West Chapter 2 : Dragon King, Deva General
  • Journey To The West Chapter 1 : Dragon And Wolf

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Q: What is Journey to the West about?

Journey to the West (西游记, Xīyóu Jì), is a Chinese novel written in the 16th century by Wu Cheng’en (吴承恩, Wú Chéng’ēn).

It 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 sums up the book’s role perfectly, saying, “Enduringly popular, 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 by the power and virtue of cooperation.”

Q: Is Journey to the West based on a real story?

The novel’s storyline is loosely based on an actual journey by a Buddhist monk also called Xuanzang who traveled from the city of Chang’an (today’s Xi’an) westward to India in 629 A.D. and returned 17 years later with priceless knowledge and texts of Buddhism.

Q: In short, what is Journey to the West about?

A long time ago, in a magical version of ancient China, the great Tang Empire is ruled by an emperor named Taizong. Due to a mixup involving the wrongful execution of a dragon king, Taizong falls ill, dies, and is dragged down to the underworld. There he comes face to face with the Ten Kings of the Underworld, survives a harrowing journey through hell, and finally escapes with the help of a deceased courtier.

When Taizong returns to the human world he is a changed man. He decides to send a monk to the Western Heaven (that is, India), to visit the Buddha, obtain holy scriptures, and bring them back to the people of the Tang Empire. This task is nearly impossible, requiring the crossing of thousands of miles of wild and dangerous territory. With guidance from the bodhisattva Guanyin, the emperor selects a young monk named Xuanzang.

Xuanzang is a brilliant young man but has a complicated history. In an earlier lifetime centuries before, he was a student of the Buddha but was careless in his studies. Expelled from the Buddha’s temple, he spent the next ten lifetimes meditating and acquiring merit. As an infant in his current lifetime he is nearly killed by bandits, placed in a floating basket by his widowed mother and sent downriver, rescued by a monk, and raised in a monastery. At age eighteen he learns his true history, and goes off to avenge his father’s death.

Later he is chosen by Taizong to undertake the epic journey to the west. Now called Tangseng (“monk from Tang”), he faces a near-impossible task: he must cross hundreds of mountains and thousands of rivers, and survive encounters with a horrifying series of bandits, monsters, demons, ghosts, evil kings, scheming monks, false Buddhas, and much more.

Sun Wukong from The Journey to the West | That's Mandarin Guest Post

Q: How about the Monkey King and other famous characters?

Tangseng could never survive the journey on his own. Fortunately he acquires three powerful but deeply flawed disciples.

First is the monkey king Sun Wukong (孙悟空, S ūn W ù kōng , his name means “ape awakened to the void”), who he frees from a 500-year imprisonment under a mountain in punishment for creating havoc in heaven.

Second is Zhu Bajie (猪八戒, Zhū Bājiè, “pig of the eight prohibitions”), a gluttonous pig-man who is constantly fighting, and often succumbing to, his desires for food, sex and comfort.

And third is Sha Wujing (沙悟净, Shā Wùjìng, “sand seeking purity”), a reformed man-eating river demon.

All three have been converted to Buddhism by the monk, but they often slip back into their bad habits and cause Tangseng a great deal of trouble. Fortunately they all have great magical powers which come in handy for battling demons and monsters, and saving Tangseng from all sorts of trouble.

The story of this journey is described in this epic novel.

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Q: How long is the original book?

The original Journey to the West is a very long book. It contains 100 chapters and is 588,000 Chinese characters long. It uses a very large vocabulary of 4,500 different words, over 90% of which are not included in HSK Levels 1-6, making it quite difficult for most non-native Chinese speakers to read.

The novel is also available in English translation, the best one being by the scholar Dr. Anthony Yu. His version fills four volumes and runs over 2,300 pages.

Q: Is the book suitable for Chinese beginners?

Fortunately for people learning to read Chinese, there is now another way to read this book. My writing partner Xiao Hui Wang and I have spent the last five years writing a series of 31 books that retell the Journey to the West story in language that is accessible to anyone learning to read Chinese at the HSK 3 level. The stories in these books are told in a way that matches the original as closely as possible, but because they are graded readers they are much easier to read. The first book, Rise of the Monkey King, is relatively short and uses just 512 Chinese words. Each book adds more new words and slightly increases the length of the story and complexity of the writing, leading step by step to the longest and most challenging book, Book 31, The Final Trial. All told, the entire series uses about 2,200 different Chinese words excluding proper nouns.

Fortunately, the original novel is not written as a single continuous story, but is broken up into more or less standalone episodes, each one between one and four chapters in length. This makes it possible to read and enjoy any of the 31 graded readers without having to read the ones that came before it.

Each book is written in Simplified Chinese. The books include pinyin, English translation, and a glossary. Free audio versions of each book are available free of charge on YouTube.

Q: Where can I get these books?

A list of all 31 books in the series, along with short descriptions and links to the Amazon product pages and free YouTube audiobooks, can be found on the Imagin8 Press home page, www.imagin8press.com .

Jeff Pepper | Guest Author at That's Mandarin Blog

by Jeff Pepper

Jeff Pepper ([email protected]) is President and CEO of Imagin8 Press , and has written dozens of books about Chinese language and culture.

Over his thirty-five year career he has founded and led several successful computer software firms, including one that became a publicly traded company. He’s authored two software related books and has been awarded three U.S. patents.

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Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West ,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China’s most famous religious heroes, and his three supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. Throughout his journey, Xuanzang fights demons who wish to eat him, communes with spirits, and traverses a land riddled with a multitude of obstacles, both real and fantastical. An adventure rich with danger and excitement, this seminal work of the Chinese literary canonis by turns allegory, satire, and fantasy.         With over a hundred chapters written in both prose and poetry, The Journey to the West has always been a complicated and difficult text to render in English while preserving the lyricism of its language and the content of its plot. But Yu has successfully taken on the task, and in this new edition he has made his translations even more accurate and accessible. The explanatory notes are updated and augmented, and Yu has added new material to his introduction, based on his original research as well as on the newest literary criticism and scholarship on Chinese religious traditions. He has also modernized the transliterations included in each volume, using the now-standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization system. Perhaps most important, Yu has made changes to the translation itself in order to make it as precise as possible.          One of the great works of Chinese literature, The Journey to the West is not only invaluable to scholars of Eastern religion and literature, but, in Yu’s elegant rendering, also a delight for any reader.

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  • Summary: The journey to the West was a conspiracy of heaven! After Sutra (Buddhist sacred texts) went missing for more than a decade, Heaven sent its army to search, in order not to let the Sutra once again fall into the hands of heaven, the journey to West begin again. The journey to the West was a conspiracy of heaven! After Sutra (Buddhist sacred texts) went missing for more than a decade, Heaven sent its army to search, in order not to let the Sutra once again fall into the hands of heaven, the journey to West begin again.  HIDE

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  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 59 A Reckless Plunge into the Asura Kingdom Feb 28,2019
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  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 52 The Great Sage Equaling Heaven: Sun Wu Kong is Here! Jan 07,2019
  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 51 The Stone-Encased God-Ape: A Reincarnation from Fire Jan 01,2019
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  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 48 The Ancient Dragon’s Secret Dec 13,2018
  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 47 A Decisive Battle between the Two Heavenly Kings Dec 13,2018
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  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 36 Boundless Transformation: 3,000 Worlds of Existence Dec 13,2018
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  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 9 The Sinful White Dragon Horse Dec 13,2018
  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 8 Entering And Leaving Society Dec 13,2018
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  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 6 Undying Heart Jul 17,2017
  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 5 Searching for the Grand Master Tang Sangzan Jul 06,2017
  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 4 The Legend of the White Wolf’s Beginnings, Bai Lang returning Sutra Jul 06,2017
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  • Journey to the West (Zheng Jian He) 2 Dragon King, Deva General May 19,2017
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西行纪 (chinese); xi xing ji; westbound; westbound discipline (english); tây du (vietnamese - tiếng việt - tv).

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Monkey King : Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en, Julia Lovell - translator - editor - introduction

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A Chinese  Lord of the Rings  and one of the all-time great fantasy novels - which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people" - now in a thrilling new translation

A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle; the ability to travel 108,000 miles in a single somersault. A master of subterfuge, he can transform himself into whomever or whatever he chooses and turn each of his body's 84,000 hairs into an army of clones. But his penchant for mischief repeatedly gets him into trouble, and when he raids Heaven's Orchard of Immortal Peaches and gorges himself on the elixirs of the gods, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain, freeing him only 500 years later for a chance to redeem himself: He is to protect the pious monk Tripitaka on his 14-year journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire.

Joined by two other fallen immortals - Pigsy, a rice-loving pig able to fly with its ears, and Sandy, a depressive man-eating river-sand monster - Monkey King undergoes 81 trials, doing battle with Red Boy, Princess Jade-Face, the Monstress Dowager, and all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards, and  femmes fatales,  navigating the perils of Fire-Cloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand, the Water-Crystal Palace, and Casserole Mountain, and being serially captured, lacquered, sautéed, steamed, and liquefied, but always hatching an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam.

Monkey King: Journey to the West  is at once a rollicking adventure, a comic satire of Chinese bureaucracy, and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new translation, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault, with his signature cloud-somersault and unerring sense for fun, into the hearts of millions of Americans.

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