Before Orientalism
Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151
Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151
Drawing on medieval accounts of the earliest European journeys to China, India, Mongolia, and southeast Asia, Before Orientalism explores European attitudes toward Asian eating habits, sexual practices, femininities, and civility, reconstructing a precolonial vision of the East that was often neutral or admiring.
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