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thundara  ·  3025 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: December 14th: What are you reading this week?

    Making of Modern Japan is on my list.

I seem to remember you mentioning Orientalism the last round of this. Did you see this odd news / editorial from a few weeks ago?





kleinbl00  ·  3025 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I did, but didn't look at it. Orientalism is about what the CIA calls "South Asia", what Tamim Ansary calls "The Middle World" and what West calls The Middle East.

thundara  ·  3025 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    By the mid-20th century, Western scholars generally considered "the Orient" as just East Asia, Southeast Asia, and eastern Central Asia.[2] As recently as the early 20th century, the term "Orient" often continued to be used in ways that included North Africa and even parts of southeastern Europe. Today, the term primarily evokes images of China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and peninsular Southeast Asia.[2]

From wikipedia^^ Huh, TIL.