Before Orientalism

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Before Orientalism is written by Kim M. Phillips and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0812245482 (ISBN 10) and 9780812245486 (ISBN 13).

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.