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Zhong Jikun

تشونغ جي كون

Notable figure 1938–2020 · Source: Peking University news profile of Zhong Jikun · Second source: Arabic Literary Translations in China: A Brief History, ArabLit (2016)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Author of a Chinese History of Arabic Literature; translator

Biography

Professor of Arabic studies at Peking University and head of the Chinese Society for Arabic Literature Studies. He wrote a two-part History of Arabic Literature in Chinese, and translated modern Egyptian stories (1983, with a colleague), A Tear and a Smile (1984, with a colleague), stories by Ihsan ʿAbd al-Quddus (1998), and shared in the Arabian Nights (1998).