posted by [identity profile] greyhame.livejournal.com at 03:55pm on 18/04/2005
Oh, wow. That's Sun Wukong! My brother and I grew up with those books, because my uncle, who does business in Mongolia, had given them to us, and for years I was always surprised that other people didn't know them. Then I got used to the idea, and now I'm surprised when other people do.
 
posted by [identity profile] norah.livejournal.com at 04:03pm on 18/04/2005
So it is! But we're all part of that weird liberal-arts private-college eclectic-education cabal, so the same sorts of odd "hey, how do you know that?!" stuff will show up more often, I think. It still amazes me, though, how few Americans know the Monkey King, except through anime bastardizations like Saiyuki.

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