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Xi you ji. Selections. English
Monkey / Wu Cheng'en ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley.
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Title:[Xi you ji. Selections. English]
Monkey / Wu Cheng'en ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley.
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Author/Creator:Wu, Cheng'en, approximately 1500-approximately 1582.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Waley, Arthur.
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Published/Created:New York : Grove Press, ©1970.
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: PL2697.H75 E5 1970
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Number of Items:2
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Xuanzang, approximately 596-664--Fiction.
China--Fiction.
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Genre/Form:Biographical fiction.
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Description:306 p. ; 21 cm.
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Series:UNESCO collection of representative works. Chinese series.
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Summary:Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.
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Notes:"Folk novel of China"--Cover.
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ISBN:0802130860 (pbk.) :
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Contents:The monkey{u2019}s story
Kuan-Yin{u2019}s mission
Family story of Hsuan Tsang
The emperor summoned to the under world
What he experienced there
The general mass for the dead
The pilgrim starts his journey
The taming of the monkey
The dragon horse
Pigsy is taken on
Sandy follows
The lion demon in the kingdom of crow-cock
The cart-slow kingdom
The river that leads to heaven and the great king of miracles
The goal achieved
The eighty-first calamity.