Julia Lovell (University of London), Mei Zhang (WildChina)

For our May book club, we’ll be reading one of China’s four great literary classics, Monkey King: Journey to the West, with Julia Lovell.

“A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle; the ability to travel 108,000 miles in a single somersault...”