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The Journey to the West (Xiyouji) was published anonymously in 1592. It wasn't until 1923 that a Chinese scholar connected the story to Wu Chengen. However, Glen Dudbridge has called this attribution into question. Wu's verifiable writings show that he did not have enough knowledge on religion, folklore, and politics to have written the novel. In addition, antecedents of the novel date back hundreds of years before Wu's time. For more, see The Hsi-yu Chi: A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-century Chinese Novel (1970) by Glen Dudbridge. See also Wu Chengen's biography in Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644: Volume 2 (1976).

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