Journey to the West
Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. In English-speaking countries, "Monkey", Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation is well known.
William John Francis Jenner
From 1979 to 1985 Jenner travelled to China every summer, and worked on the translation of "Journey to the West" and other works, for example, those by Lu Xun. He has written about the process and politics of translating and publishing "Journey to the West" in an essay published in the "Los Angeles Review of Books" (3 Feb 2016).