A wonderful translation by Anthony C. Yu, this is the English version that we used as our primary reference while writing our Journey to the West series.With over a hundred chapters written in both prose and poetry, The Journey to the West has always been a complicated and difficult text to render in English while preserving the lyricism of its language and the content of its plot. But Yu has successfully taken on the task, and in this new edition he has made his translations even more accurate and accessible. The explanatory notes are updated and augmented, and Yu has added new material to his introduction, based on his original research as well as on the newest literary criticism and scholarship on Chinese religious traditions. He has also modernized the transliterations included in each volume, using the Pinyin romanization system. Perhaps most important, Yu has made changes to the translation itself in order to make it as precise as possible.