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Na Xun

نا شيون

Notable figure 1911–1989 · Source: Sha Min, Arabic Literary Translations in China: A Brief History, ArabLit (2016) · Second source: Zhu Kai, on One Thousand and One Nights, China Writers Network (2020), reprinted from China Reading Weekly

Field: Literary translation

Affiliation

Translated the Arabian Nights into Chinese from Arabic

Biography

A Hui Chinese from Tonghai, Yunnan, who studied at al-Azhar in Cairo. His Arabian Nights was the earliest Chinese translation made directly from Arabic. He began it in the 1930s, and it appeared in three volumes (1957) and in six (1982–84). He also published the Adventures of Sindbad (1959) and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1980).