Wu Cheng'en

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Wu Cheng'en


Born
in Lianshui, Jiangsu, China
September 22, 1505

Died
October 03, 1580

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Wu Cheng'en (simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; pinyin: Wú Chéng'ēn, ca. 1505–1580 or 1500–1582, courtesy name Ruzhong (汝忠), pen name "Sheyang Hermit," was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty, best known for being the probable author of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Journey to the West, also called Monkey.
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Monkey: The Journey to the ...

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Monkey King

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Journey to the West (4-Volu...

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The Journey to the West, Vo...

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The Journey to the West, Vo...

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The Journey to the West, Vo...

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The Journey to the West, Vo...

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The Monkey and the Monk: An...

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Quotes by Wu Cheng'en  (?)
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“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”
Wu Cheng'en, Monkey: A Journey to the West

“Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted"

- Sylvia Plath's epitaph (from Wu Cheng'en's novel Journey to the West aka. Monkey, translated by Arthur Waley)”
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“A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.”
Wu Cheng'en, Monkey

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July 2018 War and Travel

 
  8 votes, 47.1%

Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (1590's) (Waley abridged translation, 1942)
 
  4 votes, 23.5%

 
  3 votes, 17.6%

 
  2 votes, 11.8%

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