Product details. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nanhai publishing company; 1st edition (1 November 2016) Language ‏ : ‎ Chinese. Paperback ‏ : ‎ 994 pages. ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 7544285294. ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-7544285292. Journey to the West, a classic Chinese novel by Wu Cheng'en (Ruzhong). Published in the 16th century, it narrates mythological Chinese tales. First part deals with the Monkey "Sun Wukong" who loots the heavens. Second part, the Pig "Zhu Bajie", i.e. "Eight Precepts Pig," tastes his cosmic issues sometimes in conflict with the Monkey. Here are two examples from the 1592 JTTW: 1) Wang (王) appears in the royal title of the " Queen Mother " (Wangmu niangniang, 王母 娘娘), the high-ranking Daoist goddess who owns the immortal peach groves; and 2) Ta (他) is used to refer to the female Bodhisattva Guanyin ( 觀音 ). Vol. 1 Birth of the Stone Monkey. Cited as one of the greatest Chinese novels, MONKEY KING (The Journey to the West) follows the adventures of Sun Wu Kong, born from a stone on Spring Mountain and given the title of the Handsome Monkey King, who seeks to learn the secret of eternal life. Journey to the West, Originally published anonymously in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty, is a Chinese classical novel that remains highly popular even to this day. The work is also known as Monkey from the title of a popular, abridged translation by Arthur Waley, and is considered one of the Four Classical Novels of Chinese literature. ec2N.

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