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The Tower of Myriad Mirrors by Yueh Tung, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Tower of Myriad Mirrors by Yueh Tung, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Tower of Myriad Mirrors by Yueh Tung, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Yueh Tung

The Tower of Myriad Mirrors by Yueh Tung, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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China's most outrageous character-the magical Monkey who battles a hundred monsters-returns to the fray in this seventeenth-century sequel to the Buddhist novel Journey to the West. In The Tower of Myriad Mirrors, he defends his claim to enlightenment against a villain who induces hallucinations that take Monkey into the past, to heaven and hell, and even through a sex change. The villain turns out to be the personification of his own desires, aroused by his penetration of a female adversary's body in Journey to the West. In this, his only novel, author Tung Yueh (1620-1686), a monk and Confucian scholar, picks up the slapstick of the original tale and overlays it with Buddhist theory and bitter satire of the Ming government's capitulation to the Manchus. After a nod to Journey's storyteller format, Tung carries Monkey's quest into an evocation of shifting psychological states rarely found in premodern fiction. An important though relatively unknown link in the development of the Chinese novel and window into late Ming intellectual history, The Tower of Myriad Mirrors further rewards by being a wonderful read. Shuen-fu Lin is Professor of Chinese literature at the University of Michigan. Larry Schulz holds a Ph. D. in Chinese intellectual history from Princeton University and has published his dissertation, "Lai Chih-te and the Phenomenology of Change," and articles on traditional Chinese medicine. He is currently a senior officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. | The Tower of Myriad Mirrors by Yueh Tung, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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