Monkey King (Part 1) - A Basic Chinese Reading Book (Simplified Characters), Folk Story of Sun Wukong from the Novel Journey to the West, Self-Learn Reading Mandarin Chinese

The book, Monkey King, is a story of Sun Wukong (孙悟空), a mythical character from the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West (西游记. The books narrate early adventures of the ape king who later accompanied Tang Sanzang to fetch the Buddhist scripture from India. The current volume is the fourth book in Mandarin Chinese Reading series. The volume, made of about 600 characters, is suitable for the low intermediate to advanced level Chinese language learners. It includes both the Chinese text (simplified characters) and pinyin in the story form. This is a basic book (Level 1) to practice Chinese reading.

The book has 10 chapters in the following order:

第一章 The Stone Ape is Borne

第二章 The New Found Cave

第三章 Fear of Death

第四章 The King Left the Cave

第五章 The Woodchopper

第六章 The Ape King Meets the Saint

第七章 The Ways to Immortal Life

第八章 The Angry Saint

第九章 Sun Wukong and Pine-tree

第十章 Sun Wukong Returns to the Cave