{
 "id": "place/china",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "china",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الصين",
  "en": "People's Republic of China",
  "ur": "عوامی جمہوریہ چین"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بلاد الصين؛ اتصل بها المسلمون تجاراً وعلماء منذ العصور الأولى.",
  "en": "The land of China, reached by Muslim traders and scholars from the earliest centuries."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "china-east-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  35,
  105
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "region",
  "coordinates": [
   35,
   105
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "approx",
  "coordinate_note": "Identified location; flagged for gazetteer verification.",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q148"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "person-place-geo-merge",
   "merged_from": [
    "person-place-geo-a",
    "person-place-geo-b",
    "person-place-geo-c"
   ],
   "note": "Semantic merge of duplicate records written by parallel enrichment runs.",
   "source": "Wikidata item Q148 (labels, coordinates), read via the Wikidata API in the person-place geo-enrichment run.; Wikidata item Q148 (labels, coordinates, description)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 10,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/al-sini",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Place association from the person's nisba/name (الصيني); denotes association, not proven residence.",
   "sources": [
    "source/fihrist-ibn-al-nadim"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/liu-zhi",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Qing-dynasty Muslim scholar of Nanjing, China, per the record's own text.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ma-muan",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Associated with الصين per the record's own text; relation type pending review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/al-aalam"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/pan-zhiwan",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/al-aalam"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sun-tzu",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Sun Tzu, Chinese strategist of the state of Wu (per the sources' account).",
   "sources": [
    "source/assabile-tareq-al-suwaidan"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "work/al-idara-al-amaliyya-course",
  "work/fann-al-harb",
  "person/al-sini",
  "person/liu-zhi",
  "person/ma-muan",
  "person/pan-zhiwan",
  "person/sun-tzu"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}