The Comparison of Gramsci's Cultural Hegemony and Said's Orientalism

Said's Orientalism develops the idea of Gramsci's cultural hegemony, expanding power struggle deep into East-West cultural exchange and Western knowledge discourse. Orientalism explores Western ideological hegemony and causes the complication and stubbornness and expansion of cultural hegemony. This paper attempts to analyze the similarities and differences between cultural hegemony and Orientalism so that we can know better the difficulties of Proletariat movement, the nature of imperialism and the history of colonialism.