Orient

methodologies for the studying and understanding of China. While Said’s perspective stems from the contrast of the West and the Orient, Cohen bases his method on China as its own entity. Within his work Orientalism, Said offers a critique of the study of the Orient—that is, Asia and the Middle East. Said examines the historical, cultural, and political views of the Orient that are held by the West, examining where they came from and how they developed. Said defines…

Pacific & Orient started as a private limited company establish in 1994. Pacific & Orient Insurance or known as P&O Insurance is the main subsidiaries of P&O Berhad. P&O Insurance is one of the largest Malaysian general insurers, and listed on the Main Board of the Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad in 1995. Since then, Pacific & Orient Berhad has diversified in business interests to include financial services and information technology services. These businesses have a common pool of human and…

Like with any business it has it highs and lows as well tragedy. Georges Nagelmackers passed away at the age of 60 in the year of 1905 leaving behind possibly the most successful luxury transportation system for the time as his legacy. Even the Orient Express couldn’t except the effects of war unfortunately even with CIWL extensive connections with many of the heads of Europe made by Nagelmackers couldn’t prevent the train’s hiatus during World War I. Shortly after the end of the war they…

The representation of black men and orientalism in the media This essay is going to be analysing the various media steriotypes produced in discourse by the West about black men and the orient and how this has a damaging effect on the two ethnic groups in society. The representation of black men in the media is constructed around a white dominiate supermacist view of them, this view has been orchastrated and maintained historically from slavery. For example the male gaze which is accepted and…

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or reproduce orientalism. The portrayal of orient as distinct from the oxidant is evident in both the representations. Both the representations, i.e. the travelogue and television sitcom are creation of oxidants (Zarqa Nawaz and MacDonalds both have been born and bred in Canada), or west and mainly zeroes in on portrayal of Eastern values within Western popular culture. Both representations discuss a number of issues while emphasizing on how the orient and oxidants behave.…

rationalization of action that, under the modern epistemology, would not have been entertained. Edward Said’ “Orientalism” states that the views of the orient (Middle Easterners) by the Occident (Europeans) are constructed in a manner to justify control through a veil of superiority over these…

Michel Foucault is considered one of the leading theorists in the subject of "discourse", he believes that "in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized and redistributed by a certain number of procedures whose role is to ward off its powers and dangers, to gain mastery over its chance events, to evade its ponderous, formidable materiality." (Foucault, 52) Accordingly, Edward Said has used Foucault's concept of discourse to analyze Orientalism; in "The…

The theme of Orientalism assumed an imperative part in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century abstract works in Europe. Powering the imaginative creative energies of craftsmen, abstract figures, and truth be told all of Europe, this interest with the Orient likewise impacted a considerable lot of the Romantic authors, who arranged books and verse alike in the puzzling distant grounds of Turkey, India, the Middle-East, and Asia. Relations in the middle of East and West initially increased far…

the starting point of European colonial empires that followed for the next six centuries. Eventually, it was believed that without proper knowledge of the people they ruled, the colonial rulers were at a disadvantage, which led to the study of the Orient and the creation of Orientalism. (Said 1979) As the conquerors of India "sought to control its subject people more fully [...] they proclaimed themselves an Indian empire" (Metcalf 2002, 439) eventually creating the Indo-Saracenic style…