This book is suitable for ages 9 to 12 years. This text is in Chinese & English. On a particularly clear night, a rock on the highest peak of the Flower and Fruit Mountain shatters open to give birth to an otherwise ordinary looking monkey. The monkey, however, is anything but ordinary. This extraordinary monkey journeys far across the oceans in search for immortality and rewrote the history of the magical world...Little did he know that the true journey of his life has yet to come. "The Monkey King and the Book of Death" is the first volume in the "Monkey King" series, adapted in modern English from Journey to the West (by Wu Cheng'en of the Ming Dynasty), one of the most popular Chinese adventure and fantasy fiction of all times, telling the story of a magical monkey - the "Monkey King", escorting a monk in his travels across a whole continent to obtain sacred scriptures from the West, fighting demons and overcoming endless difficulties and trials on the way to Enlightenment.
This book is suitable for ages 9 to 12 years. This text is in Chinese & English. On a particularly clear night, a rock on the highest peak of the Flower and Fruit Mountain shatters open to give birth to an otherwise ordinary looking monkey. The monkey, however, is anything but ordinary. This extraordinary monkey journeys far across the oceans in search for immortality and rewrote the history of the magical world...Little did he know that the true journey of his life has yet to come. "The Monkey King and the Book of Death" is the first volume in the "Monkey King" series, adapted in modern English from Journey to the West (by Wu Cheng'en of the Ming Dynasty), one of the most popular Chinese adventure and fantasy fiction of all times, telling the story of a magical monkey - the "Monkey King", escorting a monk in his travels across a whole continent to obtain sacred scriptures from the West, fighting demons and overcoming endless difficulties and trials on the way to Enlightenment.
Ted Tao grew up with the Monkey King story and loves its world of fantasy and adventures to the bones. He finished reading the original Journey to the West novel in its entirety, over 1,000 pages in Chinese, when he was only eight. Then at age nine, Ted created, wrote and even illustrated a sequel to the vast classic, which was so well done that several publishers were considering publishing it. Unfortunately, the hand-written manuscript was lost in a house move ... But the dream went on. Having majored in physics at University of California, studying black hole astrophysics and such, Ted has found a miraculous link between his love of the modern scientific world of physics and his fascination of the Eastern mysticism, represented in part by the magical journey of the Monkey King. His English adaptation of the Monkey King series was thus born.
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