Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: As the Peonies Glow Red, the Ch'ing Fish Breathes Out Its Spell; Issuing an Elegy for the Wrongly Killed, the Great Sage Tarries
Chapter Two: A New T'ang Dynasty Appears on the Western Road; The Glorious Emperor Rests in the Green Jade Palace
Chapter Three: Hsuan-tsang Is To Be Commissioned and Given a Peach Flower Battle-Axe; The Mind-Monkey Is Startled by the Axes of Sky Gougers
Chapter Four: A Crack Reveals a Myriad of Bewildering Mirrors; Where the Shapes of Things Appear, Their Original Form Is Lost
Chapter Five: Through the Cast Bronze Mirror the Mind-Monkey Enters the Past; In Green Pearl's Tower the Wayward Disciple Knits His Brows
Chapter Six: For a Face Half Covered with Tears, the True Beauty Dies; At the Mention of P'ing-hsiang, the General of Ch'u Is Grieved
Chapter Seven: From Drumbeats Between Ch'in and Ch'u; Beautiful Ladies, True and False, Appear in the Same Mirror
Chapter Eight: In the World of the Future, Monkey Exterminates the Six Thieves; As Yama, for Half a Day Monkey Judges Good and Evil
Chapter Nine: How Ch'in Kuei, Even with a Hundred Bodies, Could Not Redeem Himself; The Great Sage Wholeheartedly Takes Refuge in Yuei Fey
Chapter Ten: Monkey Returns to the Tower of Myriad Mirrors; In the Palace of Creeping Vines Wu-k'ung Saves Himself
Chapter Eleven: Reading Accounts Before the Palace of the Hexagram of Limitation; Collecting Hairs on the Crest of the Hill of Grief
Chapter Twelve: In the Palace of Crying Ospreys, the Tears of the T'ang Priest Fall; A Young Girl Plucks the P'i-p'a and Sings a Tale
Chapter Thirteen: Monkey Meets an Old Man in Green Bamboo Cave; By the Reed Flowers Monkey Seeks
Chapter Fourteen: Young Lord T'ang Accepts an Order to Lead the Troops; Lady Green-twine Becomes a Broken Jade by the Pool
Chapter Fifteen: The T'ang Priest Musters His Troops Under the Midnight Moon; The Great Sage's Spirit Falters Before the Banners of Five Colors
Chapter Sixteen: The Elder of the Void Rouses Monkey from His Dream; When the Great Sage Returns, the Sun Is Half Hidden in the Mountains
Appendix: Tung Yueh's Answers to Questions on The Tower of Myriad Mirrors
Chinese Names & Terms
Afterword