Past and Present Siddiqui, Fazzur Rehman creator author text New Delhi Indian Council of World Affairs 2022 monographic eng - 102p. The China-Arab relationship has endured for centuries. Past relationship was primarily anchored in economic spheres on the legendry Silk Road and once again is prospering in the economic sphere. The burgeoning economic relationship of the past had lost its track after the discovery of the Sea route when Europeans replaced the Arabs as a major trading partner. But the relationship founded through trade and travelling continued later also and a new phase of cultural and intellectual exchange in the nineteenth and the early twentieth century provided a new impetus to the bilateral relationship. The visit of a series of Chinese academic delegations and individual scholars to Egypt and other parts of the Arab World and the subsequent translation of various Chinese and Arabic texts into Arabic and Chinese languages brought both sides close to each other. Fazzur Rehman Siddiqui Includes bibliographical references English China—Foreign relations Arab countries Arab countries—Foreign relations China China—Commerce Arab countries Arab countries—Commerce China China—Civilization Arab influences 327.51053 SID-C 9789383445707