Recent scholars have challenged the previously dominant paradigm that emphasizes Western literary influences on Arabic literature by situating the Nahda in a regional comparative framework. Despite expanding the geographic scope, they continue to overlook that the Nadahwis produced a significant amount of writing on “the East”. This paper aims to re-examine Arab literary history by revealing a historical moment where Arab intellectuals actively wrote about a world outside Europe, and translated the anti-colonial resistance of other Eastern countries into a Nahdawi context. In this paper, I examine a one-act Arabic play entitled Za’ir al-Sin (The Roar of China) co-authored by Ma Tianying, a male Chinese Muslim diplomat, and Munira Sayyim Shah, a female Egyptian Muslim playwright. Published in the Egyptian literary journal al-Riwaya in 1939, Za’ir al-Sin was written during Ma’s visit to Egypt as a member of the Chinese Islamic Near East Delegation. According to Ma’s introduction, this play portrays a group of Chinese Hui Muslims and their resistance to the Japanese invasion of a mosque in Jining, and is an adaption of true events. Building on Lawrence Venuti’s notions of domesticating and foreignizing translation, I will show how the playwrights present the Chinese anti-colonial struggle as relatable to Egyptians by appropriating Egyptian revolutionary discourse. Focusing on the Arab orientation of this play, I investigate how the two playwrights strategically domesticated the Chinese anti-colonial struggle for their Arabic-speaking audience by situating China as being within the Muslim Umma and by inserting Arabic phrases, including al-Mutanabi verses, and by using direct address to the audience. In particular, I investigate how this play, through the portrayal of a Chinese female Muslim character leading the militant resistance against the Japanese invaders, used an Eastern model of womanhood to participate in Nahdawi social discourses on the New Woman.