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Mao and the Monkey King

ChinaTalk

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A Book Review - A Novel About Women

'i was very keen to bring out strong female characters, or female related stories within the book,' she says. 'I found this imagination of a world of sexual power turned upside down really fascinatingly subversive for a sixteenth century novel' A favourite fight scene also involves a female demon, the very famous tishan gontu,. She has a magic, a fire extinguishing fan that a monkey needs in order to continue on their journey. But she has a major grudge against monkey, and so far from giving him the fan, he challenges her to a duel. The prince's iron fan definite has the mos.

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