Adventures of the Monkey God (Revised ed)

One of China's favourite classics, this is the far east's story of evolution: the religions, the philosophies, the legends of the oldest civilisation on earth.

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.