TY - BOOK AU - Siddiqui, Fazzur Rehman TI - China and the Arab World: Past and Present SN - 9789383445707 U1 - 327.51053 PY - 2022/// CY - New Delhi PB - Indian Council of World Affairs KW - China—Foreign relations KW - Arab countries KW - Arab countries—Foreign relations KW - China KW - China—Commerce KW - Arab countries—Commerce KW - China—Civilization KW - Arab influences N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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. ER -