The Journey to the West Books 1 2 And 3: Three Classic Stories in Traditional Chinese and Pinyin 600 Word Vocabulary Level

This book contains the full text in Traditional Chinese of the first three books in our Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here - The Rise of the Monkey King Trouble in Heaven and The Immortal Peaches - are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting.These three stories all focus on the adventures of Sun Wukong The Handsome Monkey King one of the most famous characters in Chinese literature and culture. His legendary bravery foolish mistakes sharp-tongued commentary and yearning for immortality and spiritual knowledge have inspired hundreds of books television shows graphic novels video games and films.These books are based on the original epic 2000 page novel written in the 16th century by Wu Chengen. It is probably the most famous and best-loved novel in China and is considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature.These stories are written as much as possible using the 600 word vocabulary of HSK3. They are presented in Traditional Chinese characters and pinyin and include an English version and complete glossary. Free audio versions of all books in this series are available on YouTubes Imagin8 Press channel and on our website www.imagin8press.com.