The original story of 'X' is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. Although 'X' is a Middle-Eastern tale, the story is set in China, and 'X' is explicitly Chinese. However, the "China" of the story is an Islamic country, where most people are Muslims; there is a Jewish merchant who buys 'X's wares (and incidentally cheats him), but there is no mention of Buddhists or Confucians. Everybody in this country bears an Arabic name and its monarch seems much more like a Muslim ruler than a Chinese emperor. Some commentators believe that this suggests that the story might be set in Turkestan (encompassing Central Asia and the Chinese province of Xinjiang).
Identify 'X'...
'X'-Aladin
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