Last updated: 04-03-2022 Readers may be surprised to learn that chapter nine of the current one hundred chapter edition of Journey to the West did not appear in the original version anonymously published by the Shidetang (世德堂) publishing house in 1592. Chapter nine of course tells the story of how Tripitaka‘s parents, his scholar-official father … Continue reading Archive #15 – Narrative Structure and the Problem of Chapter Nine in the “Hsi-Yu Chi”