Title: Modern Arabic Literature and Mysticism

Author: Li Chen

Publisher: Sino-Culture Press

Edition: 1st Edition, July 2017

Format: 16 - mo Binding: Soft - hardcover

Printed Sheets: 19.25 Word Count: 260,000 characters

ISBN: 9787507547139

Price: 48.00 CNY

The author of this book has selected nine representative poets, writers, and playwrights from five Arab countries, namely Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, and Libya. Arranged in the order of their birth years, each of them is introduced and reviewed. This is to demonstrate how Arab literati in the 20th century inherited and carried forward the essence of national culture at different stages of social development.

Li Chen is an associate researcher of Arabic literature. Born in 1939, Li graduated from the Advanced Arabic Translation Class of the Foreign Affairs College in 1962. In 1977, Li transferred to the Oriental Section of the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Li's main works include Modern Arabic Literature and Mysticism. Translations include Children of Gebelawi, Call of the Setting Sun, This Is My Territory. Li also served as the chief editor of works such as Selected Classical Arabic Essays, Arabic Women's Literature, and Babylonian Myths.