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吳承恩  |  Wu Cheng’en

Legal name:  吳承恩

Transliterated name: Wu, Cheng’en

Birth place:  Lianshui, Jiangsu Province, China

Birth date:  1500 or 1505

Death date:  1580 or 1582

Language:  Chinese

Bibliographic comments:  While authorship is uncertain, Wu remains the most likely author for Monkey King.

Biographic comments:  

Novels

Monkey King: Journey to the West

1592

<  May 2022 edition, 1st printing

Penguin

ISBN 978-0-14-313630-9

Trade paperback, xliv+339 pages

$18.00 / C$24.00

Notes:

  •  Foreword and interior art by Gene Luen Yang.

  •  Translated and with 'A Note on the Translation' by Julia Lovell.