Palestinian-American literary scholar at Columbia University whose book 东方学 (Orientalism, 1978) argued that Western writing built a false picture of the East. It helped found postcolonial studies.
Àidéhuá Sàiyìdé de 《 Dōngfāng Xué 》 shì yīběn hěn zhòngyào de shū.
Edward Said's 'Orientalism' is a very important book.
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His memoir Out of Place came out on the mainland as 《格格不入》, a set phrase for not fitting in, and in Taiwan as 《乡关何处》 'where is home?', words that echo a line of the Tang poem 《黄鹤楼》: 日暮乡关何处是 'at dusk, which way lies home?'