occidentalist

noun — 2 senses

occidentalist

noun

Etymology From occidental + -ist.

1

One who studies occidental languages.

2

A person who favours Western ideas or customs.

  • Giving full agency to the Chinese Occidentalists, she argues that Occidentalism was a discourse used within the context of domestic politics in post-Mao China as a “strategy of liberation" and a counterdiscourse to the government's ideological domination […]2001, Shumei Shi, The Lure of the Modern:

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