Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven: Wu Cheng’en (Penguin Archive) - Softcover

Cheng’en, Wu

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ISBN 10: 024175240X ISBN 13: 9780241752401

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2025

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Wu Cheng’en’s 16^th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lovell’s witty and charismatic translation, we meet one of its heroes: Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, whose powers include shape-shifting, immortality and being incredibly rude. Though he rises to a position of power in the heavenly bureaucracy, Monkey King’s arrogant exploits attract the attention of the Buddha – with very unfortunate consequences.

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Very little is known about Wu Cheng'en (c. 1505-80), although he is believed to have held the post of District Magistrate for a time. He had a reputation as a good poet, but only a few rather commonplace verses of his survive in an anthology of Ming poetry and in a local gazetteer.

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Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lovell’s witty and charismatic translation, we meet one of its heroes: Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, whose powers include shape-shifting, immortality and being incredibly rude. Though he rises to a position of power in the heavenly bureaucracy, Monkey King’s arrogant exploits attract the attention of the Buddha – with very unfortunate consequences.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 024175240X
• ISBN 13: 9780241752401
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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