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.
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These range from splendid tilework and architectural monuments to Ottoman miniatures, Orientalist paintings, manuscripts, maps, historic photos, vintage postcards and stamps.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022
Its remaining original construction — in the vernacular idiom, with touches that prefigure the Baroque, and an Orientalist flared red ceramic tile roof — dates to the late 1500s.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 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 this respect, the adventurer and Orientalist Richard Francis Burton was an exception.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2019
Ion Keith-Falconer, Orientalist and missionary, was a saint in boyhood as in manhood.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell
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