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
He installed 11 of Mr. Uklanski’s pictures at the Pera Museum, which focuses on Orientalist art.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 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 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
An Orientalist by his studies, he travelled in Egypt and Syria, desiring to investigate the origins of ancient religions, and reported what he had seen in colourless but exact description.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
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