Below are links to the Chinese novel
Journey to the West translated in different languages. I don't know how close the translated version is to the original Chinese version but it is fairly close so that people, who cannot read Chinese, can read and know about this famous Chinese classic. This is just some that I have found in the internet. If anyone know any site or can translate this novel into different languages for other people around the world, please feel free to put the links in the forum so I can put it up. Thank you in advance.
Before you click on the link to read, why don't I tell you a little summary of what this story is about so you could understand a little better about the story so it won’t be confusing for any first time readers.
The novel Journey to the West (Xiyouji) is written by Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-82). The story begins with the birth of Monkey King on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit. Monkey King learns to live with the monkeys nearby and becomes their leader when he crossed the waterfall on the Flower Fruit Mountain. Being extremely smart and cunning, he learned the 72 transformations and immortality from a Taoist master. He also learned how travel 108,000 li in a single somersault. The weapon that he uses is a golden iron rod that can expand or shrink at its owner's command. Having eaten the peaches of immortality specially grown for the banquet to be held by the Heavenly Queen Mother of the West, the Buddha traps him beneath the Mountain of the Five Elements. Five hundred years later, Wu Kong was released by the monk Xuan Zang on his quest to obtain the holy Buddhist scriptures from India. These two and three other pilgrims - Pigsy, Sha Monk and the dragon horse - have to overcome 81 calamities and confrontations in the form of supernatural phenomena and monsters before reaching their goal and returning to China with the texts, which they did and became Buddhas in the end.
The story is based on an actual journey undertaken by the monk Xuan Zang (602-664) in the 7th century from Chinese Central Asia to India, the home of Buddhism, to collect Buddhist texts for translation into Chinese. During the reign of Emperor Tai Zong(627-649) of the Tang Dynasty, Buddhist Monk Xuan Zang was sent to India by the Emperor. From Chang'an (present-day Xi'an), the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the monk journeyed west. It took him seventeen years but he eventually fulfilled the mission and returned to Chang'an. From that time forward, Buddhism spread across China. As this legendary trip was told and retold by later generations, many embellishments were added along. Wu Cheng'en, using popular versions of the story along with his own fictional details, created the classical novel
Journey to the West which is now famous throughout China.
