Bøger i East Asian Comparative Literat serien

The seven essays that comprise this volume address the actual processes by which a discreet number of terms in modern Chinese and Japanese came into being, how they outdistanced all competitors, and the persons and texts involved in the process.

In this book, Barbara Wall analyses sixty Korean variations of The Journey to the West as dynamic texts, arguing that their artists are participants in the ongoing creating of the story world known as The Journey, in the process challenging typical assumptions about the classics of world literature.