6/12/2023 0 Comments King under the mountain patreon![]() From here, we follow the exploits of the arrogant, powerful, and stubborn Monkey (whose Buddhist name is Sun Wukong).ĭuring Part One of Monkey King, Sun Wukong trains under a Buddhist master to learn a thousand transformations he takes a great weapon from the kingdom of a Dragon King he builds his own kingdom in Water Curtain Cave and rules for centuries.Įventually, Monkey finds himself in the Jade Emperor’s heaven, picking fights, working jobs poorly, eating other people’s entire feasts, and generally causing chaos. It reads like a Greek or Norse myth as Monkey is born from a rock atop Fruit-Flower Mountain. Part One of Monkey Kingfocuses on the titular Monkey. The story of Monkey Kingis split into four parts, though the new translation by Julia Lovell does away with the division of those parts but keeps the chapter-by-chapter structure. I’ll continue to refer to it by both names but Monkey King is now, perhaps, the definitive English version of the Wu Cheng’en classic. However, the new edition which I’m mostly talking about (and the one I have personally read) is Julia Lovell’s Monkey King. However, most English translations chose to title the book Monkey King or simply Monkey after one of the story’s main protagonists.Īround the world, the book is perhaps best known as Journey to the West. In the original Chinese, Wu Cheng’en’s classic novel is titled 西遊記 ( Xi You Ji) which literally translated to Journey to the West. This new translation of Monkey King breathes fresh life, humour, wit, and charm into the 16th Century classic Chinese novel.īefore we get into what Monkey Kingis about, it’s worth clarifying the book’s title a bit. In 2021, we have been gifted a fresh, new translation of Monkey King by scholar and translator Julia Lovell. It has been adapted into Chinese films and cartoons, translated into English multiple times (in full and abridged) and was even the main inspiration for Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga. Of the four classic Chinese novels, it is Wu Cheng’en’s Monkey King (Journey to the West)that is most famous. Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong.Monkey King (Journey to the West) by Wu Cheng’en.
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