This book contains the full text of the 13th, 14th and 15th stories in our Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting. In The Magic Ginseng Tree, the Buddhist monk Tangseng is visited in a dream by someone claiming to be the ghost of a murdered king. Tangseng’s chief disciple Sun Wukong offers to…

This book is a compilation of the Traditional Chinese versions of books 1, 2 and 3 in our Journey to the West series of story books for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here – Rise of the Monkey King, Trouble in Heaven, and The Immortal Peaches – are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting. These three stories all focus on the adventures of Sun Wukong, the Handsome…

This book is a compilation of books 10, 11 and 12 in our Journey to the West series of story books for people learning to read Chinese.  The three stories told here – The Magic Ginseng Tree, The Monster’s Secret, and The Five Treasures – are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting. In the Magic Ginseng Tree, Tangseng and his disciples arrive at a secluded mountain monastery which turns out to be the home of a…

This book is a compilation of books 7, 8 and 9 in our Journey to the West series of story books for people learning to read Chinese.The three stories told here – The Monster of Black Wind Mountain, The Hungry Pig, and The Three Beautiful Daughters – are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting. In The Monster of Black Wind Mountain, we tell the story of the first few months of the journey…

This book is a compilation of books 4, 5 and 6 in our Journey to the West series of story books for people learning to read Chinese.The three stories told here – The Young Monk, The Emperor in Hell, and The Journey Begins – are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting. In The Young Monk, we tell the story of Xuanzang, the monk chosen by the Buddha to undertake the dangerous journey westward…