Wu Cheng-en was a novelist in the Ming Dynasty, his Xi You Ji (Pilgrimage to the West) was one of the great literary classics which has 
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long been popular with the Chinese people. 
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        A comic novel dealing with Xuan-zang¡s trip to India, the story tells how Xuan-zang (known as Tripitaka) and his disciples (three animal 
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spirits)¡Sun Wu-kong (¡Monkey King¡), Zhu Ba-jie (¡Pigsy¡) and Friar Sand (¡Sandy¡)¡took a long journey to the ¡West Heaven¡ (i.e. India)
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in search of sacred texts. They met numerous devils and endured  ¡eighty-one adventures¡ and succeeded in reaching their destination and 
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in bringing the sacred texts back to China.  Among Xuan-zang¡s disciples,  Monkey King is the most loved character in the fiction. Daring and
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resourceful, he hates oppression and desires justice.