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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You say that no one wants to keep paintings like these, but Orientalist works of this sort are regularly available for sale online.
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2021
“Aladdin” exists today only because of the 18th-century Orientalist Antoine Galland.
From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2019
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
“A veritable miracle,” is the pronouncement made by a noted French Orientalist.
From God Passes By by Shoghi Effendi
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