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In the Images of World Literature slideshow, you saw ancient images inspired by Journey to the West/Monkey. Here at Connections, you can find modern interpretations, analyses, and performances of the story.

Movies/Popular Interpretations/TV/Performance

• Monkey Goes West — This 1966 movie from Hong Kong is a live-action retelling of the story of the journey made by the Buddhist priest Hsuan Tsang, Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy.
  http://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Goes-Diana-Chang-Chung/dp/B000009Q5E/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1265646042&sr=8-2
• A Chinese Odyssey — A 1995 live-action version of the tale of Monkey, this is derived from the story of Journey to the West rather than faithful to it.
  http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Odyssey-Pandoras-Box-VHS/dp/B000009HNQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1265646081&sr=1-2
• Monkey — a Japanese live-action television show from the 1970s that recounts the story of Hsuan Tsang's journey to India with his three disciples.
  http://www.monkeyheaven.com
  http://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Season-Episodes-1-13-TV/dp/B00211YJT4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1265646110&sr=8-1-catcorr
  
• Monkey — a wonderful "comic" book of the story; scroll to the bottom of the page for links to each page of the comic.
  http://www.china-on-site.com/literatu/classic/west/index.html
• Monkey: Journey to the West: the Opera — by pop musicians Damon Albarn & Jamie Hewlett.
  http://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Journey-West/dp/B001CVCBEO
  
• The Lost Empire — 2001 Sci-Fi channel miniseries based on Journey to the West
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198779/plotsummary
• Saiyuki — 1978 kung fu TV show based on Journey to the West
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078659/plotsummary
• The Forbidden Kingdom — 2008 kung-fu movie about rescuing the Monkey King.
  http://www.asianweek.com/2008/04/18/jackie-chan-jet-li-enter-%E2%80%98the-forbidden-kingdom%E2%80%99/

Art

• Katsuya Terada, The Monkey King (graphic novel).
  http://www.amazon.com/Monkey-King-v-Katsuya-Terada/dp/1593073046/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265646134&sr=8-1
• Ji-Li Jiang, The Magical Monkey King: Mischief in Heaven (children's book)
  http://www.amazon.com/Magical-Monkey-King-Mischief-Heaven/dp/1885008252/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265646153&sr=1-1

Books

• Farid al-Din al-Attar, The Conference of the Birds, trans. Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis, 1984. A great comic poetic narrative from Persia, about a mystical quest for enlightenment by a group of bird-brained birds.
  http://www.amazon.com/Conference-Birds-Allegory-Farid-ud-Din-Mantiq-ut-Tayr/dp/8120617223/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265646173&sr=1-1
• C. T. Hsia, The Classic Chinese Novel: A Critical Introduction, 1968.
  http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Chinese-Novel-Critical-Introduction/dp/1885445741/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265646200&sr=1-2
• Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, 1990.
  http://www.amazon.com/Tripmaster-Monkey-His-Fake-Book/dp/0679727892
• Victor Mair, ed., The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, 2000.
  http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-History-Chinese-Literature/dp/B002OK5TEG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265646228&sr=1-1
• Andrew Plaks, ed., Chinese Narrative: Critical and Theoretical Essays, 1977.
  http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Narrative-Critical-Theoretical-Essays/dp/0691063281/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265646246&sr=1-3
• David Rolston, How to Read the Chinese Novel, 1990.
  http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Novel-Princeton-Library-Translations/dp/0691067538/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265646265&sr=1-1
• Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (translations available by Royall Tyler and by Edward Seidensticker). The greatest medieval Japanese novel, interesting to compare to the mixture of worldly detail and otherworldly withdrawal in Wu Cheng-en's work.
  http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Genji-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/014243714X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265646284&sr=1-4
• Voltaire, Candide (many translations). A classic European tale of a journey in quest of enlightenment, from a satirical writer engaged with a much more secular brand of enlightenment.
  http://www.amazon.com/Candide-Optimism-Penguin-Classics-Voltaire/dp/0140440046/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265646333&sr=1-2
• Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone (also known under the title Dream of the Red Chamber), trans David Hawkes. One of the other four "great classics" of Chinese narrative, telling a love story amid a clan's decline.
  http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Story-Stone-Dream-Chamber/dp/0140442936/ref=pd_sim_b_4
• Winston L. Y. Yang, Classical Chinese Fiction: A Guide to Its Study and Appreciation, 1978.
  http://www.amazon.com/CLASSICAL-CHINESE-FICTION-APPRECIATION-BIBLIOGRAPHIES/dp/B000CBG6N2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265646374&sr=1-4