Orientalist

American  

[awr-ee-en-tuhl-ist] / ˌɔr iˈɛn təlˌɪst /

adjective

1. showing or relating to Orientalism.

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noun

1. a person who studies the languages, literature, etc., of Asia, especially Eastern Asia.

2. a person who holds exoticizing or stereotypical views of Asia and its peoples or cultures.

Example Sentences

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

A different Ronald Colman starred in Frank Capra’s 1937 adventure “Lost Horizon,” an Orientalist fantasy about a diplomat who crash-lands in the Himalayas, finds Shangri-La and meets a high lama played by the American actor Sam Jaffe.

From New York Times

The Lusail Museum, at 560,000 square feet and designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, will hold one of the world’s most extensive collections of paintings, drawings, photography, sculptures, rare texts and applied arts, much of it from Qatar Museums’ so-called Orientalist collection by European painters who depicted the Muslim world.

From New York Times

Johnson’s “Sleeping Figure” is a mercantile odalisque, draped in orientalist trappings of corporate Asia that are announced by prominent commercial names painted on the railway containers’ sides — Hyundai, Dongfang, Zim, China Shipping and more.

From Los Angeles Times

"It's a culture that has been viewed from colonialist and orientalist perspectives, and that means there are an awful lot of inaccurate urban myths."

From Salon