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'The Birth of the Monkey', 1922. The Monkey King, Sun Wukong, a legendary characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West vy Wu Cheng'en with origins dating to Song dynasty. The monkey is born of stone and accompanies monk Tang Sanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from the West. From "Myths and Legends of China", by E. T. C. Werner. [George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, Calcutta, Sydney, 1922]