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Tower of Myriad Mirrors: A Supplement to 'Journey to the West' [西遊記 Xī Yóu Jì]

Name: Tower of Myriad Mirrors: A Supplement to 'Journey to the West' [西遊記 Xī Yóu Jì]
ISBN: 9780892649099

TUNG Yüeh, Shuen-Fu Lin (transl.), Larry J. Schulz (transl.)

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China’s most outrageous character—the magical Monkey who battles a hundred monsters —returns to the fray in this seventeenth-century sequel to the Buddhist novel Journey to the West. In The Tower of Myriad Mirrors, he defends his claim to enlightenment against a villain who induces hallucinations that take Monkey into the past, to heaven and hell, and even through a sex change. The villain turns out to be the personification of his own desires, aroused by his penetration of a female adversary’s body in Journey to the West.
The Tower of Myriad Mirrors (1640) is the only novel of Tung Yüeh (1620–1686), a monk and Confucian scholar. Tung picks up the slapstick of the original tale and overlays it with Buddhist theory and bitter satire of the Ming government’s capitulation to the Manchus. After a nod to Journey’s storyteller format, Tung carries Monkey’s quest into an evocation of shifting psychological states rarely found in premodern fiction. An important though relatively unknown link in the development of the Chinese novel, and a window into late Ming intellectual history, The Tower of Myriad Mirrors further rewards by being a wonderful read.

Categories:

Fiction - Metaphysical & Visionary

Year:

1994

Edition:

re-ed. 2012

Publisher:

Center for Chinese Studies; The University of Michigan

Language:

english

Pages:

150