How to understand Journey to the West, part 2This is a follow up to my last post describing the content and context of Journey to the West. Frederik H. Green is professor of Chinese at San Francisco State University and the translator of Bird Talk and Other Stories, a collection of stories by the Chinese author Xu Xu. We sat down to talk about the historical background of the Journey and how readers can approach the novel in translation today.John Sockolov: I’d like to start by asking you a...| Stone Bridge Press
Over the past month a coincidence of events has occasioned me to think about Journey to the West: reading our new translation of Tatsuhiko Shibusawa’s Takaoka’s Travels and the death of Akira Toriyama. For many in the English-speaking world Toriyama’s magnum opus,| stonebridgepress.substack.com