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Subject(s)

• Orientalism—History—20th century [Browse]
• Middle East—Study and teaching—History—20th century [Browse]
• Asia—Study and teaching—History—20th century [Browse]

Editor

• Kemper, Michael [Browse]
• Kalinovsky, Artemy M. [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ; 23. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ; 23 [More in this series]

Summary note

"Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different circumstances. This book, on the other hand, argues that the diffusion of interpretations in orientalism was not uni-directional, and that the different orientologies, Western, Soviet and Oriental, did not develop in isolation from each other and were interlocked in such a way that a change in any one of them affected the others; and that those being orientalised were active, not passive, players in shaping how views of themselves developed"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : interlocking orientologies in the Cold War era / Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Michael Kemper
• Orients compared : US and Soviet imaginaries of the modern Middle East / Masha Kirasirova
• From tents to citadels : the transfer of Oriental archaeology to Soviet Kazakhstan / Alfrid K. Bustanov
• "Ulama"-Orientalists : madrasa graduates at the Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies / Bakhtiyar M. Babajanov / "Because of our commercial intercourse and ... bringing about a better understanding between the two peoples : a history of Japanese studies in the United States / Ruud Janssens
• Competing national Orientalisms : the cases of Belgrade and Sarajevo / Armina Omerika
• Propaganda for the East, scholarship for the West : Soviet strategies at the 1960 International Congress of Orientalists in Moscow / Michael Kemper
• Encouraging resistance : Paul Henze, the Bennigsen school, and the crisis of détente / Artemy M. Kalinovsky.

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ISBN

• 9781138795143 (hardback)
• 1138795143 (hardback)

LCCN

2014029456

OCLC

900867137

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