Jeff Pepper The Journey to the West: In Easy Chinese, Pinyin & English

Sun Wukong is one of the most famous characters in Chinese literature and culture. His legendary bravery, his foolish mistakes, his sharptongued 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 Wukongs adventures is told in Journey to the West, an epic 2,000page novel written in the 16th century by Wu Chengen. Journey to the West is probably the most famous and bestloved 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 Homers epic poem The Odyssey in Western literature. Wikipedia sums up the books 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."Journey to the West is the ultimate tale of adventure, magic, and myth. It is probably the most famous and bestloved novel in China and is considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. The original Chinese novel written by Wu Chenen in the 16th century is over a half million Chinese characters long, and a direct English translation runs over 2,000 pages and has a very large vocabulary. This book is not a literal translation of the original... | Jeff Pepper The Journey to the West: In Easy Chinese, Pinyin & English