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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The gradual transformation of the Orientalist Egyptian peasant into the Neoclassical Statue of Liberty is documented in a panoramic installation of drawings and clay sketches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
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
His new paintings remake, with much creative leeway, Orientalist pictures from the past.
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
He was greatly distinguished as an Orientalist, and assisted in the production of Walton's Polyglott.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
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