The book, Monkey King, is a story of Sun Wukong (¿¿¿), a mythical character from the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West (¿¿¿. 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:
¿¿¿: The Stone Ape is Borne
¿¿¿: The New Found Cave
¿¿¿: Fear of Death
¿¿¿: The King Left the Cave
¿¿¿: The Woodchopper
¿¿¿: The Ape King Meets the Saint
¿¿¿: The Ways to Immortal Life
¿¿¿: The Angry Saint
¿¿¿: Sun Wukong and Pine-tree
¿¿¿: Sun Wukong Returns to the Cave