FURTHER READING

This is not the place for a Journey to the West bibliography, but the reader who wishes to investigate further might like to look at the scholarly Introduction in Volume I of Anthony C. Yu’s translation The Journey to the West (1977); the chapter on the Journey in C. T. Hsia’s The Classic Chinese Novel: A Critical Introduction (1968); and Glen Dudbridge’s masterly investigation of the origins of the novel, The Hsi-yu Chi: A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel (1970). Arthur Waley’s Monkey is an excellent abridgement of the novel that I am indebted to for first arousing my interest in the Journey and in China too; and his The Real Tripitaka and Other Pieces includes a very good essay on the life and career of the historical Xuanzang, so very different a character from the ninny in the novel.

Among the many other works on which I have drawn in writing the afterword, in addition to those listed above, are Xiyouji Ziliao Huibian (A Collection of Materials on “Journey to the West”), edited by Liu Yixuan and Liu Yuchen, Zhengzhou, 1983; Xiyouji Yanjiu (Studies on “Journey to the West”), edited by the Institute of Literature, Jiangsu Academy of Social Sciences, Nanjing, 1984; and Liu Guangzhou’s Wu Cheng’en He Xiyouji (Wu Cheng’en and “Journey to the West”), Shanghai, 1980. Xiyouji Yanjiu and the books by Yu, Hsia and Dudbridge all include bibliographies.