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  • The Lazy Monk
    Jeff Pepper / TBD / Xiao Hui Wang
    The weary monk Tangseng and his three troublemaking disciples have now been traveling for over fourteen years. They arrive at a city near the Indian border just in time for the annual Lantern Festival, when three Buddhas come down from the sky and gather up large quantities of special lamp oil. Unfortunately these are not true Buddhas but monsters. They grab Tangseng and spirit...
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    12,45 €

  • The Nine Headed Lion
    Jeff Pepper / TBD / Xiao Hui Wang
    The Buddhist monk and his three disciples finally approach the western border of China. They find themselves in a kingdom where it hasn’t rained for three years because the prefect has angered the King of Heaven. Sun Wukong brings rain and, of course, trouble. Continuing their journey, they meet a prince and his three sons. The sons want to learn how to use the disciples’ magic...
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    12,60 €

  • The Dharma Destroying Kingdom
    Jeff Pepper / TBD / Xiao Hui Wang
    Ignoring a warning from the Bodhisattva Guanyin, Tangseng and his three disciples enter a city whose king has vowed to kill 10,000 Buddhist monks and has already finished off 9,996. The travelers must avoid being killed and figure out how to show the king the error of his ways. Later, the Monkey King Sun Wukong flies over a mountain and sees a large demon with 30 little demons,...
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    12,70 €

  • The Monk and the Mouse
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    In a dark forest the monk Tangseng comes upon a beautiful young woman tied to a tree and half-buried in the ground. The monk frees her, not realizing she is a deadly mouse demon. Later they arrive at a nearby monastery where she devours some monks and tries to force Tangseng to marry her. Sun Wukong learns the truth about her, lodges a complaint with the great Jade Emperor in h...
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    12,65 €

  • The Journey to the West, Books 25, 26 and 27
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    This book contains the full text of the 25th, 26th and 27th stories in our Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here are unchanged from the three original books except for minor editing and reformatting.In Great Peng and His Brothers, the travelers arrive at a tall mountain and must confront three powerful demons: a blue-haired ...
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    24,93 €

  • The Thousand Children
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    Tangseng and his disciples arrive at the capital of Bhiksu Kingdom and learn that it’s been renamed 'Boytown' because over a thousand little boys have been locked in cages in front of their homes. When they learn what fate awaits these children, Sun Wukong arranges to get them safely out of the city. Then he and the others unravel a plot devised by two demons who, disguised as ...
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    12,84 €

  • Great Peng and His Brothers
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    The travelers arrive at a tall mountain. An old man warns them that it’s infested with thousands of man-eating demons but Sun Wukong ignores the warning. Soon they meet the three demon leaders: a blue-haired lion, an old yellow-tusked elephant, and a huge terrifying bird called Great Peng. The demons trap Sun Wukong in a magic jar but he escapes. Later the three disciples try b...
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    12,64 €

  • The Journey to the West, Books 22, 23 and 24
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    This book contains the full text of the 22nd, 23rd and 24th stories in our Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here are unchanged from the three original books except for minor editing and reformatting.In The False Buddha, Tangseng and his disciples arrive at Small Thunderclap Monastery where a demon traps Sun Wukong between tw...
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    25,02 €

  • The Demons of Spiderweb Mountain
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    The Buddhist monk Tangseng goes alone to beg some food at the home of some beautiful and seemingly gentle young women. He soon finds out that they are far from gentle. Trapped in their web, he waits to be cooked and eaten while his three disciples attempt to rescue him by confronting the spider demons, a horde of biting insects, and a mysterious Daoist alchemist.This is the 24t...
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    12,85 €

  • The Monkey Doctor
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    As Tangseng and his three disciples continue on their westward journey, they meet the king of Scarlet Purple Kingdom. The king is gravely ill, sick with grief over the loss of one of his wives who was abducted by a nearby demon king. Sun Wukong pretends to be a doctor and attempts to cure the king with a treatment not found in any medical textbook. Then he goes to rescue the im...
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    12,62 €

  • The False Buddha
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    The Buddhist monk Tangseng sees a sign, 'Small Thunderclap Monastery,' and foolishly thinks they have reached their goal. His disciple Sun Wukong sees through the illusion, but the false Buddha in the monastery traps him between two gold cymbals and plans to kill his companions. The ensuing struggle involves a golden dragon, a turtle, a snake, twenty eight constellations, and a...
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    12,74 €

  • The Rain of Blood
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    An evil rainstorm of blood covers a city and defiles a beautiful Buddhist monastery. Three years later the monk Tangseng and his three disciples arrive at the city. They explore the monastery and discover two fish-demons drinking wine and gambling in the top floor of the monastery’s pagoda. This leads to an epic underwater confrontation with their boss, a powerful dragon king. ...
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    12,65 €

  • The Journey to the West, Books 19, 20 and 21
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    This book contains the full text of the 19th, 20th and 21st stories in our Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting.In The Angry Monkey, the Buddhist monk Tangseng has harsh words for his eldest disciple, the monkey king Sun Wukong. This argument...
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    24,88 €

  • The Burning Mountain
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    As the monk Tangseng and his three disciples travel west, they find their path blocked by a huge blazing mountain eight hundred miles wide. Tangseng refuses to go around it, so his senior disciple, the monkey king Sun Wukong, must discover why the mountain is on fire and how they can cross it. He soon learns that he himself caused the mountain to ignite five centuries earlier. ...
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    12,70 €

  • The Journey to the West, Books 16, 17 and 18
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    This book contains the full text of the 16th, 17th and 18th stories in the Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting.In The Great Demon King, the Buddhist monk Tangseng and his disciples meet and try to outwit and overpower a demon who demands two...
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    24,94 €

  • The Country of Women
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    The four travelers run into difficulties and temptations in a nation of women and girls. First, the monk Tangseng and his disciple Zhu become pregnant after drinking from the Mother and Child River. Later, the nation’s queen meets Tangseng and pressures him to marry her. He barely escapes that fate, only to be kidnapped by a powerful female demon who takes him to her cave and t...
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    12,67 €

  • The Angry Monkey
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    The monk Tangseng has harsh words for his eldest disciple, the monkey king Sun Wukong. His pride hurt, Sun Wukong complains to the Bodhisattva Guanyin and asks to be released from his service to the monk. She refuses his request. This leads to a case of mistaken identity and an earthshaking battle that begins in the sky over the monkey’s home on Flower Fruit Mountain, moves thr...
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    14,19 €

  • The Thieves
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    As the travelers continue westward, the monkey king Sun Wukong steals rice from an elderly villager’s kitchen. Then the pig-man Zhu Bajie takes three silk vests from a seemingly abandoned tower. These small crimes trigger a violent confrontation with a monster who uses a strange and powerful weapon to disarm and defeat the disciples. Helpless and out of options, Sun Wukong must...
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    12,73 €

  • The Great Demon King
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    The Monkey King Sun Wukong leads the Tang monk and his two fellow disciples westward until their path is blocked by a river eight hundred miles wide. On the riverbank is a village where the people live in fear of the Great Demon King, who demands two human sacrifices each year. Sun Wukong and the pig-man Zhu Bajie come up with a clever plan to trick the Demon King and save the ...
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    12,74 €

  • Learn to Read Chinese, Book 3
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    A wealthy girl runs away with her cousin, a poor stonecarver.  A scholar finds true love inside a book. Two lovers defy death to be together. And a young man finds love with two ghosts.Believe it or not, it’s possible for you to read and understand the four wonderful love stories in this book even if you start off not knowing a single word of Chinese! We won’t lie to you and sa...
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    15,08 €

  • The Three Beautiful Daughters
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    The river-dwelling monster Sha Wujing was once the Curtain Raising Captain, but was banished from heaven by the Yellow Emperor for breaking an extremely valuable cup during a drunken visit to the Peach Festival. Later, the band of pilgrims arrive at a beautiful home seeking a simple vegetarian meal and a place to stay for the night. What they encounter instead is a lovely and w...
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    12,70 €

  • The Hungry Pig
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    The pig-man Zhu Bajie becomes Tangseng’s second disciple. In his previous life, Zhu was the Marshal of the Heavenly Reeds, responsible for the Jade Emperor’s entire navy and 80,000 sailors. But unable to control his appetites, he got drunk at a festival and attempted to seduce the Goddess of the Moon. The Jade Emperor banished him to earth, but as he plunged from heaven to eart...
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    15,09 €

  • The Monster of Black Wind Mountain
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    The monk Tangseng and his disciple, the short-tempered Monkey King Sun Wukong, begin their multi-year journey to retrieve Buddhist scriptures from Thunderclap Mountain in India. They first encounter a mysterious river-dwelling dragon, then run into serious trouble while staying in the temple of a 270 year old abbot. Their troubles deepen when they meet the abbot’s friend, a ter...
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    15,14 €

  • The Journey to the West, Books 13, 14 and 15
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    This book contains the full text of the 13th, 14th and 15th stories in our Journey to the West series for people learning to read Chinese. The three stories told here are unchanged from our original versions except for minor editing and reformatting.In The Magic Ginseng Tree, the Buddhist monk Tangseng is visited in a dream by someone claiming to be the ghost of a murdered king...
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    24,51 €

  • The Daoist Immortals
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    Tangseng and his three disciples have traveled to the wild country west of China. They arrive at a strange city where Daoism is revered and Buddhism is forbidden. The few remaining Buddhist monks are enslaved, but every night they receive a dream message that the Great Sage Equal to Heaven will come to save them. This of course is the Monkey King Sun Wukong, the eldest disciple...
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    12,64 €

  • The Cave of Fire
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    While traveling the Silk Road, Tangseng and his three disciples encounter a young boy hanging upside down from a tree. They rescue him only to discover that he is really Red Boy, a powerful and malevolent demon and, it turns out, Sun Wukong’s nephew. Ignoring this family relationship, the demon kidnaps Tangseng and plans to eat him. The three disciples battle the demon but soon...
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    12,49 €

  • Ye Xian
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    The story of Cinderella is possibly the world’s most popular folk tale. The earliest known version is from Greece around two thousand years ago, and over the next thousand years, it traveled to France, Italy and Germany, and eventually to the Walt Disney studio in America.But as the Cinderella story traveled from Greece to Western Europe, it was also carried eastward to Asia al...
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    13,01 €

  • The Ghost King
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    The Buddhist monk Tangseng arrives with his disciples at a mountain monastery, and he is visited in a dream by someone claiming to be the ghost of a murdered king. The ghost claims that the king sitting on the throne is really an evil demon. Is he telling the truth or is he actually a demon in disguise? Tangseng’s chief disciple, the monkey king Sun Wukong, offers to go to the ...
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    12,62 €

  • Hulin and the Mad Goose
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    Folk tales are immensely popular in China. Passed down orally over the centuries from grandparents and parents to children, they serve as an unwritten handbook for living. Nearly all Chinese folk tales are about simple people who find themselves in difficult situations. These people are often helped (and occasionally hindered) by talking animals, as well as by powerful gods, wi...
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    12,58 €

  • Learn to Read Chinese, Book 2
    Jeff Pepper / Xiao Hui Wang
    Two friends find a golden nugget on the ground. A young girl meets a fox spirit. A dog saves a life, a tiger takes a life. A girl runs away from her fishing boat. And a boy saves the spirit of his grandfather.Believe it or not, it’s possible for you to read and understand the stories in this book even if you start off not knowing a single word of Chinese! We won’t lie to you an...
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    15,06 €


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