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Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151 - The Middle Ages Series Kim M. Phillips
Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151 - The Middle Ages Series
Kim M. Phillips
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.
328 pages, 6 illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 5, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780812245486 |
| Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 155 × 29 mm · 657 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Karras, Ruth Mazo |