[HIGHLIGHTS] Translating Chinese literature into Arabic.. Yara Al-Masry complains about the small number of translators and the lack of funding

Egyptian translator Yara Al-Masry discusses the challenges of translating Chinese literature into Arabic. Chinese literature is considered one of the oldest literatures in the world, but it maintains characteristics different from other world literatures.

There are ancient books in the Chinese heritage, such as the Book of Songs, whose roots go back to the 11th century BC. The assumption of communist rule - to rule in China in 1949 - closed the country within the concepts of the Internationalist Party, and obscure writers began to occupy the pulpits.