The Journey to the West, Books 22, 23 and 24: Three Classic Stories in Simplified Chinese and Pinyin (Journey to the West in Simplified Chinese)

This book contains the full text of the 22nd, 23rd and 24th stories in our Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here are unchanged from the three original books except for minor editing and reformatting.In The False Buddha, Tangseng and his disciples arrive at Small Thunderclap Monastery where a demon traps Sun Wukong between two gold cymbals. Later, the travelers confront a giant snake and a huge pile of slimy and foul-smelling rotting fruit.In The Monkey Doctor, the king of Scarlet Purple Kingdom is gravely ill, sick with grief over the loss of one of his wives who was abducted by a nearby demon king. Sun Wukong attempts to cure the king with a treatment not found in any medical textbook.And in The Demons of Spiderweb Mountain, Tangseng begs some food from some gentle young women who are not at all what they appear to be. Trapped in their web, he waits to be cooked and eaten while his three disciples battle the spider demons, a horde of biting insects, and a mysterious Daoist alchemist.The stories are written in Simplified Chinese and use 1357 different Chinese words. Each page of Chinese has a facing page of pinyin. There is also a full English translation and complete glossary.Free audio versions of the three stories are available for free on YouTube’s Imagin8 Press channel and on our website, www.imagin8press.com.=======================================A GUIDE TO DIFFERENT FORMATS=======================================This easy-to-read retelling of The Journey to the West is available in several different formats, depending on what you’re looking for. They are listed below. To find these on Amazon, use the Amazon search bar to search for the ISBN or ASIN listed after each one. You can also visit www.imagin8press.com to find the Amazon.com links for all the books listed here.In English onlyPaperback ISBN: 978-1959043379 (original edition)Paperback ISBN: 978-1959043546 (same as above, but with a more colorful cover)Kindle ASIN: B0C7PMZT28 and B0DGV55C6XIn Simplified Chinese onlyPaperback ISBN: 978-1959043102Audiobook ASIN: B0BRTC13WQIn Simplified Chinese, pinyin and EnglishOversized hardcover ISBN: 978-1959043638Kindle ASIN: B0BMTPLD4PA series of 31 individual books in Simplified Chinese, pinyin and EnglishPaperback and kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B08JCQ44YGA series of 31 individual books in Traditional Chinese, pinyin and EnglishPaperback and kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B08MVC57VZA series of 11 compilations in Simplified Chinese, pinyin and Englisheach compilation contains 2 or 3 individual booksPaperback: www.amazon.com/dp/B08JCQ44YG, scroll to the bottom and click "show all" Read more