Abstract In 2014 the Chinese State Council announced establishment of a nationwide comprehensive social credit system. Western narratives often describe initiative as technologically enhanced tool autocratic control for scoring people. Yet, paper aims to show, similar accounts are tainted by several misunderstandings which perpetuate orientalist postures towards law. For purpose comparatively a...

Islamophobia in India, with the coming to power of BJP, a Hindutva (Indian nationalist) party, is on increase. To understand approach this article diverts from studies that focus empirical data incidence and discriminatory legislation construct figure Muslim as Other. My focuses Hindutvaism British Orientalist construction 18th-century Tipu Sultan signifier marking Muslims Orientalists during c...

The article is devoted to three directions of oriental architecture – cult, palace and park. Its main part concerns the Budapest synagogues. As an example Russian orientalism, phenomenon Black Sea palaces highest St. Petersburg aristocracy given. Hungarian masterpiece park architecture, elephant house in zoo Budapest, analyzed. It concluded that Orientalism had influence on formation national s...

Nineteenth-century American culture displays a remarkable diversity of attitudes toward Indian religion. While many authors and texts reflect the Orientalism posited by Edward Said, others violate the “exteriority” implied in the Orientalist stance. This variety in American treatments of Indian religion invites analysis using a more flexible critical framework such as Fred Dallmayr’s spectrum o...

The present study set out to examine the translations of Edward Said’s Orientalism in light narrative theory. paper uses critical discourse analysis different narratives produced by two Arabic Orientalism, written originally English. first translation was Kamal Abu Deeb 1980, and a later one carried Mohammad Enani 2006. Our findings demonstrate competing cultures standing opposition another, wi...