Orientalist
Americanadjective
noun
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a person who studies the languages, literature, etc., of Asia, especially Eastern Asia.
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a person who holds exoticizing or stereotypical views of Asia and its peoples or cultures.
Example Sentences
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I am all for people getting a little more Chinese, for obvious personal heritage and emotional reasons, but not in an Orientalist, “Yellow Peril” kind of way.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025
The company both democratized a luxury good, making it more attainable, and whitewashed the product, creating an American-made “Oriental” rug that replaced an Orientalist fantasy with a technological one.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2021
Don’t we want to push past the “we-they,” “self and other” discourses characteristic of the Western-dominated centuries — the Orientalist centuries, we might say?
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2019
In his Nice period paintings, when he was most under the influence of Manet, he painted and drew models in Orientalist modes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
M. Helévy, the well-known French Orientalist, was sent by the Paris Institute to the Museum of Berlin, where these statues are placed, to report upon the inscriptions.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
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