Infographics: Exchanges between Chinese and Arab civilizations on Silk Road (5)

“One Thousand and One Nights” (also known as “Arabian Nights”) is a collection of Arabian folk tales that is widely known in China.

During the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), Chinese navigator Wang Dayuan visited many Arab countries and wrote the famous book "A Brief Account of Islands” to describe the local conditions and customs of these countries.

In the 14th century, famous Moroccan scholar and explorer Ibn Battuta traveled to China, contributing to the communication between China and the Arab world. His book “The Riḥlah (Travels)” contains valuable accounts of China in the Yuan Dynasty.

Mohammad Abdul-Wali, who is praised as the "father of Yemeni fiction", described how Chinese foreign aid workers and the Yemeni people jointly built a road in Yemen during the 1950s in his short story “The Chinese Road.”