The Birth of Orientalism
Urs App
568 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus.
Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4261-4 | $79.95 | £52.00
A volume in the Encounters with Asia series
Modern Orientalism was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. The Birth of Orientalism presents a completely new picture of the Western encounter with Asia, its underlying dynamics, and the discovery of Buddhism and Hinduism.
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