Orientalism in Dominions

[HoneyBadger]

zzcat: I'm working on a mod based on pre-Muslim mod Nation based loosely on the Parthian Empire. There's no graphics for it yet, but I should be able to start on them within a few months, if I can get the two Nations I'm working on now, wrapped up by then. The great gods of procrastination will decide, ofcourse

[Boronx]

Any "true" Orient is completely irretrievable.

Three points.

We're blessed by a great deal of literature from precolonial times in the Orient.

In mathematics, it's possible, once a distortion is understood, to deconvolve a signal to wholly or partially remove it.

Is it really true that in a country as large and insular as China, that everything is distorted by Orientalism?

Not that it matters, but I'd take the East to be any place East of the Roman empire, so pretty much all of Asia East of the Euphrates.