Shen Yiming Book(s) Title
Jāmī’s Baheristan
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SHEN Yiming is a lecturer and a translator in the department of West Asian Languages and Cultures at Peking University in China. She holds a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her research focuses on Persian Sufi literature and their Chinese translations made in the 17th-18th centuries. Shen has published several papers such as “Jāmī, a Legend in China”, “Jāmī and his Texts in China Proper” and etc. Shen has also published several Chinese translations of Persian works. Besides Jāmī’s Baharistan, Shen also translated Zoya Pirzad’s Cheragh-ha ra man khamush mikonam, Moniro Ravanipur’s Jumʿa-yi Khākistarī and etc. Shen’s monograph on the circulation and translation of Jāmī’s works in China will be published in China in 2022.