Four Journeys

Chinese fantasy novels

This article is about the collection of Chinese novels. For the Islamic philosophical text, see The Transcendent Philosophy of the Four Journeys of the Intellect.

Left: cover of the Four Journeys, a printed collection that encompasses all four novels.
Center: cover of the novel Journey to the South.
Right: cover of novel Journey to the East.

The Four Journeys (Chinese: 四遊記; pinyin: Sì Yóujì) is a collection of four shenmo novels that were published during the Ming dynasty Wanli era, and they consist of Journey to the North, Journey to the South, Journey to the East, and Journey to the West.

* Journey to the North (北遊記) was composed by Yu Xiangdou (余象斗).
* Journey to the South (南遊記) was composed by Yu Xiangdou (余象斗).
* Journey to the East (東遊記) was composed by Wu Yuan-tai (吳元泰, fl. 1522-1526).
* Journey to the West (西遊記) is composed by Yang Zhihe (楊致和).[1]

## Bibliography

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* Gary Seaman (tr.): Journey to the North. University of California Press, 1987.
* List of personages in the Journey to the North
* "Divine Authorship of the Journey to the North".

## References

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1. ^ Yang Zhihe's novel is based on the same subject as, but distinct from, Wu Cheng'en's epic novel Journey to the West.

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