When I was young, the popular meaning of Orient and Oriental was already beginning to shift. The Orient of Byron, Shelley and the Young Romantics had become the Middle East (with a finer division of South Asia). Oriental soon came to mean those areas that were predominantly Han Chinese or Malaysian. I divided my Asian gallery to keep with popular meaning. |
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