# Sun Wukong

Sun Wukong is represented within Ming-era Journey to the West canon with older mythic and religious antecedents and Chinese literary, Buddhist, Daoist, and popular-performance traditions. Anchor canon to a reviewed edition of Journey to the West while researching earlier Monkey traditions, Ming publication, Buddhist pilgrimage frame, Daoist and popular elements, transformations, celestial bureaucracy, companionship, discipline, and later opera, animation, film, game, and religious reception.

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Fictional AI character portrayal.

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