Case file RR-0031 · Retrospective Review · Chinese tradition
A literary invention with a known author and a documented drafting history. The Archive found nothing earlier to review.
Archive verdict
Ruled out
Sun Wukong first appears as a developed character in a sixteenth-century novel, with an identifiable author and earlier story cycles that the Archive has traced. Nothing in the record points to a living person behind the figure. The Archive rules the case out.
MDRI Archive · Series RR Retrospective assessments are provisional. They are made from surviving accounts, not from testing, and the Archive revises them as sources are recovered. A verdict of Consistent describes a pattern in the record. It is not a finding of identity. Issued for public information.