Journey to the West,commonly known to the western readers as Monkey,is a supernatural novel about a world of of fantastic invention,in which gods and demons loom large and vie for supremacy.The novel began with a series of oral and written versions,and eventually attained its most definitive version written by Wu Ch"eng-en (1500?-1582),a scholar-official in the Yantze region,and published in 1592.
Journey to the West,commonly known to the western readers as Monkey,is a supernatural novel about a world of of fantastic invention,in which gods and demons loom large and vie for supremacy.The novel began with a series of oral and written versions,and eventually attained its most definitive version written by Wu Ch"eng-en (1500?-1582),a scholar-official in the Yantze region,and published in 1592.