The Far East is an alternate geographical term in English (with equivalents in many other languages – see the infobox on the right for examples), that usually refers to East Asia (including Northeast Asia), the Russian Far East (part of North Asia), and Southeast Asia.South Asia is sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons.

Since the 1960s, East Asia has become the most common term for the region in international mass media outlets. Far East is often deprecated as archaic, offensive, and sometimes even racist. In 2010, The Economist commented:

In other words, "Far East" is inherently Eurocentric because it is part of a geographical paradigms in which even Western Asia is the "Near East" or "Middle East". Until the end of the 20th century, it could be argued that Europe was the "center of gravity" of the global economy, although even that is no longer true.

The term Far East came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 12th century, denoting the Far East as the "farthest" of the three "easts", beyond the Near East and the Middle East. For the same reason, Chinese people in the 19th and early 20th centuries called Western countries "Tàixī (泰西)"—i.e. anything further west than the Arab world.

Far East is a 1998 play by American playwright A.R. Gurney.

Productions

Far East was first produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachusetts in July 1998. It premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in January 1999. The director was Daniel Sullivan, with a cast that featured Michael Hayden, Sonnie Brown, Lisa Emery, Bill Smitrovich, and Connor Trinneer. It has since been produced in regional theatres, including the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC in 2001 and the Laguna Playhouse, California in 2002.

The play was presented on the Public Television series "Stage on Screen" in 2001.

Publication

Far East is published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

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Far East can refer to:

Far or FAR may refer to:

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Far` is a village in Al Madinah Province, in western Saudi Arabia.

References

The Sun Is Often Out (stylized as THE SUN iS OfTEN oUT) is the debut album by Longpigs, released in 1996 on U2's record label, Mother Records.

Track listing

All songs written by Crispin Hunt except where noted.

Personnel

Longpigs

Additional personnel

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