Journey to the West
by Wu Chengen
About This Novel
"Journey to the West" is an excellent classical novel of gods and demons. It has been widely circulated since its publication, has been translated into many languages, and is familiar to people in Southeast Asia and around the world. Among them, characters such as Sun Wukong, Tang Monk, Zhu Bajie, Sha Seng and stories such as "Havoc in Heaven", "Three Strikes of Bone Demons" and "Three Tunes of the Banana Fan" are even known to women and children. The emergence of "Journey to the West" opened up a new category of long chapter novels, ended the short mode of supernatural novels since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and pushed novels about gods, demons and monsters to the peak of full-length novels. "Journey to the West" is a representative work of Chinese classical romantic novels and occupies an important position in the history of world literature. The "American Encyclopedia" calls it "a mythical novel with rich content and brilliant ideas."
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