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Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151

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Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151 - Phillips, Kim M
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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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Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151 2013, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

ISBN-13: 9780812245486

Hardcover