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A Supplement to the Journey to the West
''A Supplement to the Journey to the West'' () is a Chinese ''shenmo'' novel written around 1640 CE by Dong Yue (). It acts as an addendum to the famous ''Journey to the West'' and takes place between the end of chapter sixty-one and the beginning of chapter sixty-two.〔Madeline Chu. "Journey into Desire: Monkey's Secular Experience in the Xiyoubu." ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'', Vol. 117, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1997), pp. 654-664, p. 654〕 In the story, the Monkey King is trapped in a dream world by the Qing Fish demon, an embodiment of desire, who wishes to eat his master, the Tang Priest Xuanzang. He wanders from one adventure to the next, using a magic tower of mirrors and a Jade doorway to travel to different points in time. In the Qin Dynasty, he disguises himself as Consort Yu in order locate a magic weapon needed for his quest to India. During the Song Dynasty, he serves in place of King Yama as the judge of Hell. After returning to the Tang Dynasty, he finds that Xuanzang has taken a wife and become a general charged with wiping out desire. In the end, Monkey unwillingly participates in a great war between all the kingdoms of the world, during which time he faces one of his own sons on the battlefield. He eventually awakens in enough time to kill the demon, thus freeing himself of desire.〔Dong, Yue, Shuen-fu Lin, Larry James Schulz, and Cheng'en Wu. ''The Tower of Myriad Mirrors: A Supplement to Journey to the West''. Michigan classics in Chinese studies, 1. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2000.〕
At the end of the novel, the author lists twelve hypothetical questions that a reader might ask and answers them. For instance, he explains that the reason why he wrote the ''Supplement'' is because he wanted Monkey to face an opponent—in this case desire—that he could not defeat with his great strength. He explains other things like why he waited to reveal the monster at the end of the novel, why Monkey serves as King Yama, and the peculiarities of time travel in the dream world.
There is a debate between scholars over when the book was actually published. One school of thought favors a political interpretation which lends itself to a later publication after the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). The second favors a religious interpretation which lends itself to an earlier publication during the late Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Evidence in favor of the former includes references to the stench of nearby “Tartars,” a possible allusion to the Manchus who would eventually found the Qing and conquer China. Evidence in favor of the latter includes references to Buddhist sutras and the suppression of desire and the lack of political statements “lament() the fate of the country.”〔Chu, “Journey into Desire,” p. 9〕 The novel can ultimately be linked to the Ming because a mid-17th century poem dates it to the year 1640.
Influences on the novel draw heavily from Yuan and Ming Dynasty tales, including the literary ancestor of the ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms.''
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