Trouble in Heaven

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Things begin to unravel for Sun Wukong as he sees the consequences of his outrageous actions. While trying to defend his troop of monkeys he manages to offend the underwater Dragon King the Dragon Kong's mother all ten Kings of the Underworld and the great Jade Emperor himself. Finally goaded by a couple of troublemaking demons he goes too far calling himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and setting events in motion that cause him some serious trouble.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is the second book in the best-selling </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Journey to the West </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>series of stories for students learning to read Chinese. It is based on the events in Chapters 3 and 4 of the epic 16th century novel of the same name by Wu Chen'en. That novel was inspired by an actual journey by the Buddhist monk Tangseng (formerly called Xuanzang) who traveled from Chang'an westward to India in 629 A.D. and returned seventeen years later with priceless knowledge and spiritual texts. Over the course of the book Tangseng and his companions face the 81 tribulations that Tangseng had to endure to attain Buddhahood.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The first two books in the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Journey to the West </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>series have used a total of about 600 different Chinese words but only 432 are used in this book. There are 46 new words introduced in this book and each one is defined on the page where it is first used. The book uses Simplified Chinese characters and includes pinyin an English translation and a full glossary. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A free audiobook is available on YouTube's Imagin8 Press channel and on www.imagin8press.com.</span></p>