Monkey King (Part 1) - A Basic Chinese Reading Book (Simplified Characters) Folk Story of Sun Wukong from the Novel Journey to the West Self-Learn Reading Mandarin Chinese

<p>The book <strong>Monkey King</strong> is a story of <strong>Sun Wukong</strong> (孙悟空) a mythical character from the Chinese classical novel <strong>Journey to the West</strong> (西游记. The books narrate early adventures of the ape king who later accompanied Tang Sanzang to fetch the Buddhist scripture from India. The current volume is the fourth book in Mandarin Chinese Reading series. The volume made of about 600 characters is suitable for the low intermediate to advanced level Chinese language learners. It includes both the Chinese text (simplified characters) and pinyin in the story form. This is a basic book (Level 1) to practice <strong>Chinese reading</strong>. </p><p><br></p><p>The book has 10 chapters in the following order: </p><p>第一章: The Stone Ape is Borne</p><p>第二章: The New Found Cave</p><p>第三章: Fear of Death</p><p>第四章: The King Left the Cave</p><p>第五章: The Woodchopper</p><p>第六章: The Ape King Meets the Saint</p><p>第七章: The Ways to Immortal Life</p><p>第八章: The Angry Saint</p><p>第九章: Sun Wukong and Pine-tree</p><p>第十章: Sun Wukong Returns to the Cave</p>