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

The Dance of the Seven Veils is sometimes dismissed as one of the opera’s weaker parts, an Orientalist hodgepodge that lacks the musical complexity of the rest of the piece.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2020

“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

For the most important historical records that have come to us in recent decades we have to thank the Orientalist, though the classical explorer has been by no means idle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various