Monkey

About the illustrator

Wu Ch’eng-en lived in Jiangsu, one of China’s eastern coastal provinces, in the 16th century. Having struggled to win a place at the imperial university in Nanjing and then to establish himself as a mandarin in the civil service, he was posted to Beijing, but resigned early in order to devote himself to writing poems and stories. He lived for many years in seclusion in Huai’an, Jiangsu province. Monkey or Journey to the West was published anonymously in 1592; Wu is widely believed to have written it. He may have chosen not to publicise himself as the author because of the low status of prose fiction in vernacular Chinese at that time, but the novel is now regarded as one of the finest classic Chinese novels and is among the most popular and influential works of all East Asian literature.

About the illustrator

Wu Ch’eng-en lived in Jiangsu, one of China’s eastern coastal provinces, in the 16th century. Having struggled to win a place at the imperial university in Nanjing and then to establish himself as a mandarin in the civil service, he was posted to Beijing, but resigned early in order to devote himself to writing poems and stories. He lived for many years in seclusion in Huai’an, Jiangsu province. Monkey or Journey to the West was published anonymously in 1592; Wu is widely believed to have written it. He may have chosen not to publicise himself as the author because of the low status of prose fiction in vernacular Chinese at that time, but the novel is now regarded as one of the finest classic Chinese novels and is among the most popular and influential works of all East Asian literature.

About the illustrator

Wu Ch’eng-en lived in Jiangsu, one of China’s eastern coastal provinces, in the 16th century. Having struggled to win a place at the imperial university in Nanjing and then to establish himself as a mandarin in the civil service, he was posted to Beijing, but resigned early in order to devote himself to writing poems and stories. He lived for many years in seclusion in Huai’an, Jiangsu province. Monkey or Journey to the West was published anonymously in 1592; Wu is widely believed to have written it. He may have chosen not to publicise himself as the author because of the low status of prose fiction in vernacular Chinese at that time, but the novel is now regarded as one of the finest classic Chinese novels and is among the most popular and influential works of all East Asian literature.

About the illustrator

Wu Ch’eng-en lived in Jiangsu, one of China’s eastern coastal provinces, in the 16th century. Having struggled to win a place at the imperial university in Nanjing and then to establish himself as a mandarin in the civil service, he was posted to Beijing, but resigned early in order to devote himself to writing poems and stories. He lived for many years in seclusion in Huai’an, Jiangsu province. Monkey or Journey to the West was published anonymously in 1592; Wu is widely believed to have written it. He may have chosen not to publicise himself as the author because of the low status of prose fiction in vernacular Chinese at that time, but the novel is now regarded as one of the finest classic Chinese novels and is among the most popular and influential works of all East Asian literature.

About the illustrator

Wu Ch’eng-en lived in Jiangsu, one of China’s eastern coastal provinces, in the 16th century. Having struggled to win a place at the imperial university in Nanjing and then to establish himself as a mandarin in the civil service, he was posted to Beijing, but resigned early in order to devote himself to writing poems and stories. He lived for many years in seclusion in Huai’an, Jiangsu province. Monkey or Journey to the West was published anonymously in 1592; Wu is widely believed to have written it. He may have chosen not to publicise himself as the author because of the low status of prose fiction in vernacular Chinese at that time, but the novel is now regarded as one of the finest classic Chinese novels and is among the most popular and influential works of all East Asian literature.

About the illustrator

Wu Ch’eng-en lived in Jiangsu, one of China’s eastern coastal provinces, in the 16th century. Having struggled to win a place at the imperial university in Nanjing and then to establish himself as a mandarin in the civil service, he was posted to Beijing, but resigned early in order to devote himself to writing poems and stories. He lived for many years in seclusion in Huai’an, Jiangsu province. Monkey or Journey to the West was published anonymously in 1592; Wu is widely believed to have written it. He may have chosen not to publicise himself as the author because of the low status of prose fiction in vernacular Chinese at that time, but the novel is now regarded as one of the finest classic Chinese novels and is among the most popular and influential works of all East Asian literature.