The Journey to the West, Books 28 and 29: Two Classic Stories in Simplified Chinese and Pinyin

This book contains the full text of the 28th and 29th stories in our 31-volume Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The stories told here are unchanged from the original books except for minor editing and reformatting. In The Dharma Destroying Kingdom, Tangseng and his three disciples enter a city whose king has vowed to kill 10,000 Buddhist monks and has already finished off 9,996. The travelers must avoid being killed and figure out how to show the king the error of his ways. Later, the Monkey King Sun Wukong battles demons who use the “Dividing the Petals of the Plum Flower” trick to kidnap Tangseng. In The Nine Headed Lion, the travelers find themselves in a kingdom where it hasn’t rained for three years because the prefect has angered the King of Heaven. Sun Wukong brings rain and, of course, trouble. Later, the disciples’ magic weapons are stolen by a nearby lion demon. When they go to retrieve them, they encounter an entire family of lion demons, including a nine-headed lion with vast powers. These three stories are written in Simplified Chinese and use a total of 1199 different Chinese words. Each page of Chinese has a facing page of pinyin. The book includes a full English translation and glossary. Free audio versions of the three stories are available for free on YouTube’s Imagin8 Press channel and on our website, www.imagin8press.com. ======================================= A GUIDE TO DIFFERENT FORMATS ======================================= This easy-to-read retelling of The Journey to the West is available in several different formats, depending on what you’re looking for. They are listed below. To find these on Amazon, use the Amazon search bar to search for the ISBN or ASIN listed after each one. You can also visit www.imagin8press.com to find the Amazon.com links for all the books listed here. In English only Paperback ISBN: 978-1959043379 (original edition) Paperback ISBN: 978-1959043546 (same as above, but with a more colorful cover) Kindle ASIN: B0C7PMZT28 and B0DGV55C6X In Simplified Chinese only Paperback ISBN: 978-1959043102 Audiobook ASIN: B0BRTC13WQ In Simplified Chinese, pinyin and English Oversized hardcover ISBN: 978-1959043638 Kindle ASIN: B0BMTPLD4P A series of 31 individual books in Simplified Chinese, pinyin and English Paperback and kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B08JCQ44YG A series of 31 individual books in Traditional Chinese, pinyin and English Paperback and kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B08MVC57VZ A series of 11 compilations in Simplified Chinese, pinyin and English each compilation contains 2 or 3 individual books Paperback: www.amazon.com/dp/B08JCQ44YG, scroll to the bottom and click "show all"