Category: Silk Road Stories
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Chinese written in Perso-Arabic Script: A brief history of Xiao’erjing 小儿经
I have spent the past few months building a tool to transliterate Chinese characters into Perso-Arabic Xiao’erjing script. You can try it here. This tool is more than just a novelty. China has a long Islamic history that dates back to the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907 CE). Arab and Persian people have migrated to…