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Cheng'en Wu
Book List in Order: 35 titles
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Journey to the West: The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures
- Sep-2008
- / Epic Fantasy
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China's most popular traditional novel, Journey to the West is the thrilling story of the Monkey King and his epic quest, with his trusted companions, to redeem himself. They face fantastic foes, demons and monsters during their amazing adventures tr...
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Three Demons
- Feb-2025
- / General Fiction
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The Chechi Kingdom suffered a severe drought. Although the monks chanted Buddhist sutra to pray for rain, not a single drop fell. Suddenly, three Taoist priests brought rain successfully. The king was overjoyed and made the three Taoist priests royal...
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Journey to the West
- May-2025
- / Literary
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“The best English edition of the classic Chinese fantasy novel I have ever read.” ―Minjie Chen, Los Angeles Review of BooksA Penguin ClassicBefore there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China’s Monkey King. The title chara...
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The Birth of Monkey King
The Monkey King Series is inspired by the timeless classic the Journey to the West, one of the four great classical Chinese novels. This series follows the legendary adventures of the Monkey King, from the birth of the Monkey Kin...
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Black-Wind Mountain
Xuanzang and the monkey arrived at Guanyin Monastery. Elder Jinchi, the abbot of the monastery, showed his treasures to them. Ignoring Xuanzang's advice, the monkey reciprocated by showing off Xuanzang's embroidered robe, which made the abbot so jeal...
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The Bottomless Pit
Xuanzang and his disciples happened upon a demon disguised as a woman in distress, shouting for help. The monkey saw through the ploy but Xuanzang intractably took pity on her and let her accompany them to a temple. Xuanzang got sick in the temple, w...
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Boytown
The ruler of the Kingdom of Biqiu was deceived by his father-in-law into seeking an immortality elixir containing the blood of over one thousand children's hearts. When Xuanzang heard this cruel news on his journey, the kind-hearted man asked the mon...
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The Ginseng Fruit
Xuanzang and his disciples arrived at Wuzhuang Temple, the abode of Immortal Zhenyuan. In the temple was a special ginseng fruit tree that produced only 30 fruits every 10,000 years. Immortal Zhenyuan was away when they arrived at the temple, but he ...
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Havoc in Heaven
The Monkey King visited the Eastern Ocean Dragon King's palace and took away the Divine Treasure to serve as his own weapon. The Dragon King sued him to Heaven. The Jade Emperor approved Gold Star's idea to pacify the Monkey King by giving him an emp...
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The Hydra
Jisai Kingdom was home to a glowing sarira on top of the pagoda in Golden Ray Temple. Three years earlier, the sarira went missing when it suddenly rained blood. The king determined that the monks of the temple stole it. Xuanzang heard about the issu...
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The Imposter Buddha
Xuanzang was caught by the Yellow Brows Demon who impersonated the Buddha. The monkey was trapped inside the demon's golden cymbals. The monkey asked the deities to open the golden cymbals from the outside but to no avail. Only by letting the monkey ...
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The Imposter Monkey King
Xuanzang and his disciples encountered a group of bandits along the way, and the monkey killed them. Xuanzang was so angry about his mercilessness that he kicked the monkey out of the group. Xuanzang sent Pigsy and Sandy out for food, butXuanzang was...
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Kingdom of Dhama Phobia
Xuanzang and his disciples encountered Guanyin waiting to remind them to be careful in the nearby kingdom. Its king was hunting for four monks to complete his goal of killing ten thousand. The monkey stole clothes from some locals to conceal their id...
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The Leopard Demon
Xuanzang and his disciples encountered the leopard demon. The monkey tricked Pigsy into fighting off the demon. The demon returned to the cave and selected three capable goblins to change into his appearance to lure the monkey, Pigsy, and Sandyaway w...
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The Lion Demon
Xuanzang and his disciples lodged at Baolin Temple for a night during which Xuanzang met the ghost of the king of the Wuji Kingdom, who died three years ago, in a dream. The king told Xuanzang that he was framed and murdered by a demon and begged Xua...
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Lotus Cave
Xuanzang and his disciples encountered two demons, Golden Horn and Silver Horn, at the Lotus Cave. Silver Horn changed into a Taoist to deceive Xuanzang and moved three mountains to imprison the monkey and kidnapped Xuanzang. With the help of the imm...
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Monkey King Converts to Buddhism
The Jade Emperor asked the Buddha to help subdue the monkey after he created havoc in Heaven. The Buddha created the Mountain of Five Elements to imprison the monkey. Five centuries later, Xuanzang, an eminent Buddhist monk, was entrusted by Emperor ...
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The Motherhood River
Xuanzang and his disciples came upon the Motherhood River. Women could get impregnated just from drinking its water. Unaware, Xuanzang and Pigsy drank from the river, and their bellies grew big, which frightened them. Fortunately, a local senior told...
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The Mountain of Seven Gifts
Xuanzang and his disciples encountered an enormous python eating all the livestock in Tuoluo Manor. Nothing could be done about the situation. The monkey went to subdue the demon with Pigsy. As soon as the python opened its mouth to devour Pigsy, the...
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The Nine-Headed Lion
The pilgrims taught the three young princes of Yuhua County how to use their immortal weapons. The three young princes asked blacksmiths to make them new weapons like theirs. Tawny Lion Demon saw it and stole the weapons. The monkey rushed to fight h...
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The Palm-Leaf Fan
The pilgrims were advised by the locals near the Flaming Mountain to borrow Princess Iron Fan's magical fan to put out the fire and pass. The princess had married Bull Demon King and given birth to Red Boy. When the monkey asked to borrow her fan, sh...
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Pigsy Gets Married
In Gaolaozhuang Village, Mr. Gao wanted to find a son-in-law for his youngest daughter but ended up with a pig demon. Many were invited to subdue the demon but all failed. When Xuanzang and the monkey heard that there was a demon in the house on thei...
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The Purple-Gold Bells
Xuanzang and his disciples came upon the Kingdom of Zhuzi, where the king was seriously ill. To cure his illness, the king issued a royal notice to find a good doctor. The monkey saw it and cured the king with three pills. The king was suffering from...
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Rain for the Healed Soul
The pilgrims encountered Fengxian County where people had been suffering drought for three years. The county magistrate issued a notice to recruit masters to summon rain. The monkey accepted the challenge and asked a dragon king for help, but the lat...
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Receiving the Holy Scriptures
The Monkey King Series is inspired by the timeless classic the Journey to the West, one of the four great classical Chinese novels. This series follows the legendary adventures of the Monkey King, from the birth of the Monkey King and the rioting in ...
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Red Boy
Xuanzang and his disciples were alerted by a red cloud shooting up to the sky from a hollow while they were passing a tall mountain. When the red cloud cleared, a demon, Red Boy, disguised himself as a seven-year-old child tied to a tree. Xuanzang co...
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Reviving the Dead
Generous and kind Mr. Kou invited the pilgrims to stay for a long time. Although the Kou family tried hard to keep them there, Xuanzang was determined to leave. After the team left, Mr. Kou was killed by a group of bandits breaking into his house. Re...
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The River of Flowing Sand
Xuanzang and his two disciples were stuck at the River of Flowing Sand due to a demon with a huge necklace made of nine skulls. The monkey and Pigsy engaged in a big fight with the demon but could not defeat him and had to turn to Guanyin for help. I...
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Silk Cave
Xuanzang mistakenly ran into seven spider demons in Silk Cave while looking for food. The monkey heard that the spider demons would bathe in a pool every day. He then transformed into an eagle to take away their clothes. Pigsy hit them but got stuck,...
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The Teal Buffalo Demon
Xuanzang was hungry as the group was passing a big mountain, so the monkey went to beg for a meal for him. Before he left, the monkey drew a circle around Xuanzang, Pigsy, and Sandy, and told them not to leave it. They waited a long time. When Xuanza...
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Three Rhinoceros Demons
On the day of the Lantern Festival, Xuanzang and his disciples stayed in Jinping County to admire golden lanterns. There were three resplendent lanterns, shining brightly and smelling fragrant. It turned out that the oil used in these lanterns were s...
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Tongtian River
Xuanzang and his disciples were blocked by the mighty Tongtian River, the abode of the monstrous King of Inspiration, who was eating a boy and a girl as a yearly sacrifice. The monkey and Pigsy transformed into Chen family children and defeated the m...
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The Womanland of Western Liang
Xuanzang and his disciples sought to have their travel documents stamped at the capital of the Womanland, but the queen fell for Xuanzang and tried to marry him. Xuanzang rejected the advances, but the monkey convinced him to play along, and Pigsy li...
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The Yellow-Robe Demon
The White-Bone Demon repeatedly took the appearance of a human to deceive Xuanzang. The monkey saw through the trick and killed the demon, but Xuanzang, unaware about the demon's true identity, got angry about the killing and sent the monkey away. Xu...
