The Journey to the West in Easy Chinese: The Complete Novel Retold With a Limited Vocabulary in Simplified Chinese
Written by Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang
Narrated by Jeff Pepper and Chen Junyou
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About this audiobook
“Journey to the West” is probably the most famous and best-loved novel in China and is considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. Its place in Chinese literature is roughly comparable to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey in Western literature. 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.”
This book contains the complete text, in Chinese, of all 31 books in the best-selling “Journey to the West” series of graded readers by Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang. If printed in standard paperback this book would run over 1,000 pages. It is written for people who are learning the Chinese language and want to enjoy a fascinating story while gaining a better understanding of Chinese history and culture.
This book is NOT a literal translation of the original novel, which was written in the 16th century and is difficult for modern readers. It is retold using a restricted vocabulary of Chinese words and a simple sentence structure. It starts off relatively easy and gradually increases in complexity. For example the first story, “Rise of the Monkey King.” covers the events in the first two chapters of the novel and uses a vocabulary of just 507 words. The second story, “Trouble in Heaven,” covers the next two chapters and uses only 431 words. Each story adds, on the average, about 50 new words, and so by the time you finish the final story, called “The Last Trial.” you will have heard over two thousand different Chinese words.
Jeff Pepper
Jeff Pepper has worked for thirty years in the computer software business, where he has started and led several successful tech companies, authored two software related books, and was awarded three U.S. software patents. In 2017 he started Imagin8 Press to serve English-speaking students of Chinese.
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