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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldLmao
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    10 days ago

    And part of the reason the setting is almost never China in adaptations is that the original 1001 Nights version of the story is very much set in China in name only, with the setting being modeled after the Middle East anyway. I mean, there are two jinns, a sultan, and the sorcerer is from Morocco. And when characters are actually named, they have decidedly non-Chinese names like Mustapha.