Said’s Orientalism targets the Middle East, not the Far East.

Evidence

In his book Orientalism, Edward Said analyzes the various discourses and institutions which constructed and produced, as an object of knowledge, that entity called “the Orient.” Said calls this discourse “Orientalism.” Note that, though we tend to include the Far East (including China) in our use of the word “Orient,” Said refers mainly to the Middle East, the territory occupied principally by Islamic peoples. Also, his main focus is French writing about the Middle East. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 593

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pins down precisely which region and corpus Said’s ‘Orientalism’ analyzes, so the term won’t be misapplied in downstream readings.
• XREF: Direct building block connecting Said’s Orientalism framework to the Islamophobia readings that build on it; this is the core vocabulary extraction task.