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Readers searching for cultural depth or particular historical moments can use Asia within historical juvenile fiction as a starting point before exploring other regional or topical subcategories in youth literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"trouble-heaven-story-traditional-chinese-pinyin-600-word-vocabulary-level-9781952601088-new","title":"Trouble in Heaven: A Story in Traditional Chinese and Pinyin, 600 Word Vocabulary Level","description":"\u003cp\u003eThings 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. 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Wikipedia sums up the book's role perfectly, saying \"Enduringly popular, the tale is at once a comic adventure story, a humorous satire of Chinese bureaucracy, a spring of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeys towards enlightenment by the power and virtue of cooperation.\"Journey To The West is a very, very long story, consisting of a hundred chapters. It is loosely based on an actual journey by the Buddhist monk Xuanzang who traveled from the Chinese city of Chang'an westward to India in 629 A.D. and returned 17 years later with priceless knowledge and texts of Buddhism. Over the course of the book Xuanzang and his companions face the 81 tribulations that Xuanzang had to endure to attain Buddhahood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, The Rise of the Monkey King, covers the events in the first two chapters of this epic story. We learn how the little stone monkey is born, becomes king of his troop of monkeys, leaves his home to pursue enlightenment, receives the name Sun Wukong (literally, \"ape seeking the void\") from his teacher, and returns home to defend his subjects from a ravenous monster. Later books in this series tell more stories from the life of this famous monkey and his companions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause of this story's importance in Chinese culture, we've made every effort to remain faithful to the original while retelling it in simple language suitable for beginning Chinese learners at the HSK 3 level. We have tried to not add or change anything, though of course we've had to leave out a lot of detail. 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