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Like the Jataka tales covered in "India's Heroic Age,"
Monkey explores the journey undertaken by creatures towards
Buddhist enlightenment. (See pages 1002–1010 in Volume A).
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Pigsy's fascination with food and sex in Monkey has invited
comparisons with Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel covered in
"The Renaissance in Europe." (See pages 2591–2631 in Volume C).
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The frequent references to Confucian thought in Monkey are taken
from Confucius's Analects covered in "Poetry and Thought in
Early China." (See pages 820–831 in Volume A.)
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In the Peach Blossom Fan, Liu refers to Ssu-ma Ch'ien's
Records of the Historian covered in "Poetry and Thought in Early
China" (see pages 866–879 in Volume A).
- Peach Blossom Fan alludes to T'ao Ch'ien's
poem "Peach Blossom Spring" covered in "China's
Middle Period." It is from this poem that the expression
"peach blossom spring" becomes metaphorically
associated with a place of refuge from the world. Note that
the allusion here is anachronistic. (See
pages 1358–1360 in Volume B.)
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Like Don Quixote, covered in "The Renaissance in Europe," "The
Story of the Stone" is considered to embody its nation's cultural
identity. (See pages 2671–2783 in Volume C.)
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