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Crazy Literary Fact: Aladdin Was Chinese

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam Posted by Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, Managing Director, Editorial, Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc.



Aladdin is not Arab but Chinese. He was never part of the collection of the One Thousand and One Nights collection but was later added by French translator Antoine Galland. You can read all about it here.

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