Lust, Caution, and Enlightenment: A Reexamination of Su Wukong’s Sexuality in Xiyou ji
The formation of the character of Sun Wukong has remained one of the most controversial issues in the field of Xiyou ji studies. While acknowledging that different strands might have fed into the image of Sun Wukong in the sixteenth- century novel Xiyou ji (Journey to the West), this paper calls att...
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