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In Orientalism, we encounter common stereotypes that depict the East as an unknown exotic landscape. However, it was more typical of pre-modern societies, when the church greatly distorted information about the Orient, even today we are unfortunately met with enthusiastic applause from the masses. Therefore, its forms are various: it appears e.g. in music videos by world-famous artists. I also focus on Orientalism in music in this paper, which concentrates on an audiovisual clone of David Bowie’s (1947–2016) song China Girl, created in 1984. The main part in it is played by a model of Chinese origin born in New Zealand. In addition, the video clip captures several elements of Orientalism deliberately creating the resulting exotic mood. This paper will therefore focus on their origin in Asian cultures, especially China. Subsequently, I will try to find out to what extent Orientalism is used in the music video. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chinese cuisine, considered a uniform style of food preparation, still survives in Czech pubs as "China": cheap meat fried with vegetables, glistening in a pool of soy sauce, glued with potato starch, or inlaid with old peanuts in the already populated "Czech Gongbao". But those who have visited China and its ubiquitous canteens could understand that the reality is seriously different. And it could happen to them that even the rampage of the beast of Globalization with the sisters of Unification and Standardization still did not bring Chinese cuisine to a single norm. Still, every Chinese region and every subculture retains its otherness. To describe those differences is the primary purpose of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes Jue Qing's (1917-1962) first piece of historical fiction, the 1942 short story "Chang'an cheng de youyu" (Melancholy in Chang'an). It explores the sources of the story in premodern Chinese literature - Broken Mirror (Benshi shi), Lu Yong (Taiping guangji), Jiao hong ji and Du Shiniang Angrily Sinks Her Jewel-Box (Jing shi tong yan) and compares them with Jue Qing's updated version. This study suggests that "Melancholy in Chang'an" can be read as an allegory of grief over the failure of the Manchukuo project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]