it never fails to amuse me that every orient has its own orient. i stumble onto chinese or japanese media that treats india & the middle east the way the US and europe treat china and japan and i just think of edward said and smile
one of the funnier things about going back to reread Ranma 1/2, a gag comedy manga from the 80s, how much that manga very, very clearly thinks of India and China as mysterious foreign lands with their inscrutable and dangerous familial relations and overreliance on the importance of honour