![]() ![]() Rob Campany, ‘Cosmogony and Self-Cultivation: The DemonicĪnd the Ethical in Two Chinese Novels’ ( The Journal of Religious Ethics Hsi-yu Chi’ ( Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 7.1/2 July, Rob Campany, ‘Demons, Gods, and Pilgrims: The Demonology of Julia Lovell at Birkbeck, University of LondonĬhiung-yun Evelyn Liu at Academia Sinica, TaiwanĬynthia J Brokaw and Kai–wing Chow, Printing and BookĬulture in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 2005) Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Trinity College, University of Oxford Professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature at Birkbeck, University of LondonĪssociate Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan The image above, from the caricature series Yoshitoshi ryakuga or Sketches by Yoshitoshi, is of Monkey creating an army by plucking out his fur and blowing it into the air, and each hair becomes a monkey-warrior. ![]() For most readers the monk, Tripitaka, is upstaged by this irrepressible Monkey with his extraordinary powers, accompanied by the fallen but recovering deities, Pigsy and Sandy. Written in 1592, it draws on the celebrated travels of a real monk from China to India a thousand years before, and on a thousand years of retellings of that story, especially the addition of a monkey as companion who, in the novel, becomes supersimian. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great novels of China’s Ming era, and perhaps the most loved. ![]()
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