Created in the 1960s.  Sun Wukong is also known as The Monkey King and is a popular story figure in China. He has super powers and was born from an ancient rock. He first appeared as the main character in a Chinese novel of the 1500s called Journey to the West. The images on the cards are based on Wukong’s adventures in that book. 孫 (Sun, pronounced as soon instead of son) is his surname, and 悟空(wu-kong) is his first name. Therefore it is correct to express his full name as Sun Wukong or Sun Wu-Kong in English. 悟 (wu) means to realize and 空 (kong) means emptiness, so 悟空 has a Buddhist meaning in Chinese. Poker is transliterated to 撲克 in Chinese, and they transliterated 撲克 back to English as Pu Ke – last 2 paragraphs by Digipunk

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