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Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China, more often known as simply Monkey, is an abridged translation published in 1942 by Arthur Waley of the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Journey to the West conventionally attributed to Wu Cheng'en of the Ming dynasty. Waley's remains one of the most-read English-language versions of the novel.
Journey to the West (Chinese: 西遊記; pinyin: Xīyóu Jì) is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.It is regarded as one of the great Chinese novels, and has been described as arguably the most popular literary work in East Asia. [2]
In the jungle, Purbasari's only companions were the animals. One of these was a black monkey named Lutung Kasarung, who was the cursed god Guruminda, and who had magical powers and could talk with humans. To help Purbasari, Lutung Kasarung took her to a lake and told her to bathe in it.
Sun Wukong (Chinese: 孫悟空, Mandarin pronunciation: [swə́n ûkʰʊ́ŋ]), also known as the Monkey King, is a literary and religious figure best known as one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. [1]
The novel is set in inner-city Sydney, but Ettler does not mention the name ‘Sydney’, suggesting she could in fact be describing any city in Australia or (more generally) the West." [ 17 ] Sydney has achieved prominence among the counter-culture, and grunge lit movement, as Australia's birth-place of the "Push movement", which has been ...
Folklore of Indonesia is known in Indonesian as dongeng (lit. ' tale '), cerita rakyat (lit. ' people's story ') or folklor (lit. ' folklore '), refer to any folklore found in Indonesia. Its origins are probably an oral culture, with a range of stories of heroes associated with wayang and other forms of theatre, transmitted outside of a written ...
A sequel to "A Shinagawa Monkey". [8] The narrator reminisces on five years earlier, when he met an elderly monkey living in a Japanese-style inn in a hot springs town in Gunma Prefecture. The talking monkey works in the ramshackle inn, scrubbing guests' backs. The monkey also drinks beer and enjoys Anton Bruckner's symphonies. The narrator ...
Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana's short novel Layar Terkembang ("The Sail Unfolds") is a sensitive portrayal of young women in contemporary Indonesia. Rustam Effendi with his Bebasari wrote the first modern play (on a historical theme).