Journey of the Monkey King — When History is Inconvenient for Your Plot

M.J. and Caoimhe talk about some differences between the real and fiction monk Xuanzang and his relationship to the Tang dynasty.

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“The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ Into English” from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html
Episode artwork is a Tang-era portrait of Emperor Tang Taizong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TangTaizong.jpg