This book contains the complete text, in Simplified Chinese, of the entire 31-volume Journey to the West series of graded readers by Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang. No pinyin, no English, no glossary. 775 pages. Journey to the West is probably the most famous and best-loved novel in China and is considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. The original Chinese novel written by Wu Chen’en in the 16th century…

This book contains the full text of The Lazy Monk and The Last Trial, the final two books in our Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The stories told here are unchanged from our original books except for minor editing and reformatting.

This book contains the full text of The Dharma Destroying Kingdom and The Nine Headed Lion, the 28th and 29th books in our Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The stories told here are unchanged from our original books except for minor editing and reformatting.

This book contains the full text of the 25th, 26th and 27th 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 Great Peng and His Brothers, the travelers arrive at a tall mountain and must confront three powerful demons: a blue-haired lion, an old yellow-tusked elephant, and a huge terrifying bird.…

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…

This book is a compilation of books 19, 20 and 21 in our Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here – The Angry Monkey, The Burning Mountain, and The Rain of Blood – are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting. In The Angry Monkey, the Buddhist monk Tangseng has harsh words for his eldest disciple, the monkey king Sun Wukong. This…

This book is a compilation of books 16, 17 and 18 in our Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here – The Great Demon King, The Cave of Fire, and The Country of Women – are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting. In The Great Demon King, the Buddhist monk Tangseng and his disciples meet and try to outwit and overpower…