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Monkey
Monkey: Folk Novel of China | Wu Ch'ng-n
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Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic sixteenth century novel is a combination of picaresque novel and folk epic that mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking adventure. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies. This translation, by the distinguished scholar Arthur Waley, is the first accurate English version; it makes available to the Western reader a faithful reproduction of the spirit and meaning of the original.
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Daisey
Monkey | Wu Ch'eng-en
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I was happy to see this as a free download through the #AudiobookSync program a few weeks ago as I wasn‘t really sure where I would find this Chinese classic. It was interesting to listen to, and I enjoyed the narration. However, after a while it got a bit repetitive and predictable, and I don‘t think that the stories will stick with me.

#1001books #audiobook #translated #ReadTheWorld #ReadingTheWorld #ReadingAsia2021 #China

Daisey @TheAromaofBooks This is my #BookSpin book 2 for May. 3y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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xicanti
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I finished MONKEY while I did some #audiostitching. You can now almost tell I‘m stitching a little Casey for my mum.

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xicanti
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I made tofu lettuce wraps while I barrelled along through the tagged book. It‘s a lot of fun so far, and it‘s free until Thursday through AudiobookSync.

The wraps were tasty, but I think I prefer the tofu made with powdered ginger. It‘s got a nice, strong flavour with the fresh ginger I used today, but there‘s more umami with powdered. Weird. #audiocooking

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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Okay, so I know this is a total cheat, but my tagged copy of Monkey is in storage, so for #ChinaGrove I'm featuring some of my Chinese films.

Plus In the Mood for Love (my 90th favorite movie) is about a man and woman who discover their spouses are cheating on them so they become friends and write an epic action/adventure serial together. Appropriately bookish I think. Gonna toss this in for #farflung too. #MayBookFlowers #RockinMay

batsy In the Mood for Love 💜💜💜🙌 7y
vivastory I ♥ Wong Kar Wai 7y
CherylDeFranceschi Nice stack! 7y
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Cinfhen I like a good movie recommendation every now & then...love this post ❤️ 7y
elawsan House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Seven Swords ... all great movies. Check out Iron Monkey, Shadowless Sword, The Bride With White Hair, CJ7, Kung Fu Hustle 7y
RohitSawant Great selection! I wasn‘t aware of most of these titles and so look forward to watching them. 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @elawsan I've seen Kung Fu Hustle and Iron Monkey, and I own Shadowless Sword. Will check out the others. Thanks! 7y
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DreesReads
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#somethingforsept #pocauthors #diversereading a few I have read, am reading, and need to read.

SusanInTiburon Great choices! 8y
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Nat_Reads
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Reading for class tomorrow!

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