Adventures of the Monkey God

Adventures of the Monkey God, one of China's favourite classics, is the Far East's story of evolution: the religions, the philosophies, the legends of the oldest civilisation. Monkey is mankind - full of faults, mischievous, ambitious and vain. But he is also generous, valiant and intrepid. He is delinquent, but also delightful. He cannot resist challenge; he loathes self-pity; above all, he despises despair.