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单词 orientalism
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Definition of orientalism in English:

orientalism

noun ɒrɪˈɛnt(ə)lɪzmɔːrɪˈɛnt(ə)lɪzmˌɔriˈɛnt(ə)lɪzəm
mass noun
  • 1Style, artefacts, or traits considered characteristic of the peoples and cultures of Asia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sellers, as always, makes elegant play with the character's improbable Orientalisms.
    • In the skilled hands of Dacic and Gekic, the mesmeric sound of the music's Orientalism was born anew.
    1. 1.1 The representation of Asia in a stereotyped way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is now seemingly impossible to comment on the image of (suffering) women in rural Chinese films without placing that commentary within a frame of orientalism and transnational consumerism.
      • The author discusses the Zionizatiion of Christianity and its relationship to orientalism.
      • As one might expect from its title, this book enters the critical conversations about Romanticism and orientalism of the last fifteen years, but with an important expansion of focus.
      • The European position bore all the earmarks of what Edward Said has called orientalism.
      • How was orientalism played out in the development of American culture and American identity as a nation?
      • This imagined Jewish orient, like classical European orientalism, viewed the east as some timeless monolith, but took pride in its supposed passivity, irrationality and emotionalism.
      • Tchen points out that political orientalism rooted in the outcry of organized labor against the non-organized Chinese labor, which was cheaply used by the capitalists to break strikes.
      • In accordance with the strategy of orientalism, and relying on the electronic and print media, the myths of the Other are created and perpetuated.
      • Kondo distinguishes between western forms of orientalism, autoexoticisms by Asian subjects, and counter-orientalisms that subvert western modes of apprehending discursively produced Asian identities.
      • Orientalism makes Muslim civilization the dark alter ego of European civilization.
      • This is a commonly cited text in discussions of early nineteenth-century orientalism and imperialism.
      • The procedure and the idea behind Japanese bath taking is clearly explained, without the oft-found orientalism.
      • Hollywood's vision of the middle east hasn't got much beyond Victorian orientalism, either.
      • The new resurgent orientalism does not even put up the pretence of scholarly detachment or search for truth.
      • Orientalism produces non-Western cultures as unintelligible; thus, one of the functions of ethnic fiction is translational.
      • The counterargument against the appropriateness of this metaphor is the over-commercialization of the Buddha in neo-chinoiserie, in New Age religion and in other resurgent forms of orientalism.
      • Orientalism is not defused by tourism, ecclesiastical or otherwise.
      • Villa may very well have been quite aware of the role modernist orientalism played in his reception in the United States.
      • The nineteenth-century preoccupation with orientalism provided a strong design influence well into the twentieth century.
      • How do notions of orientalism and cultural nationalism relate to Indian theatre?

Derivatives

  • orientalist

  • noun & adjective ɔːrɪˈɛnt(ə)lɪstɒrɪˈɛnt(ə)lɪstˌɔriˈɛn(t)ələst
    • In 1887, Notovich, a Russian scholar and Orientalist, arrived in Kashmir during one of several journeys to the Orient.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That is often why the prejudices and aberrations of one generation of Orientalists were exposed and rejected by the next.
      • He is one of the few Orientalists whose writings demonstrate a deep understanding of the Arab mind and how it works.
      • You are a friend, I cannot simply release you without hard proof of your innocence, not in dangerous times like this. you are a great Orientalist.
      • A few weeks later, Churchill, now Colonial Secretary, summoned a group of Orientalists to Egypt to determine the future of Mesopotamia, Transjordan and Palestine.
 
 

Definition of orientalism in US English:

orientalism

nounˌɔriˈɛnt(ə)lɪzəmˌôrēˈent(ə)lizəm
  • 1Style, artefacts, or traits considered characteristic of the peoples and cultures of Asia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the skilled hands of Dacic and Gekic, the mesmeric sound of the music's Orientalism was born anew.
    • Sellers, as always, makes elegant play with the character's improbable Orientalisms.
    1. 1.1 The representation of Asia, especially the Middle East, in a stereotyped way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Orientalism makes Muslim civilization the dark alter ego of European civilization.
      • As one might expect from its title, this book enters the critical conversations about Romanticism and orientalism of the last fifteen years, but with an important expansion of focus.
      • The new resurgent orientalism does not even put up the pretence of scholarly detachment or search for truth.
      • This is a commonly cited text in discussions of early nineteenth-century orientalism and imperialism.
      • Tchen points out that political orientalism rooted in the outcry of organized labor against the non-organized Chinese labor, which was cheaply used by the capitalists to break strikes.
      • Orientalism produces non-Western cultures as unintelligible; thus, one of the functions of ethnic fiction is translational.
      • The nineteenth-century preoccupation with orientalism provided a strong design influence well into the twentieth century.
      • Hollywood's vision of the middle east hasn't got much beyond Victorian orientalism, either.
      • Villa may very well have been quite aware of the role modernist orientalism played in his reception in the United States.
      • How do notions of orientalism and cultural nationalism relate to Indian theatre?
      • This imagined Jewish orient, like classical European orientalism, viewed the east as some timeless monolith, but took pride in its supposed passivity, irrationality and emotionalism.
      • It is now seemingly impossible to comment on the image of (suffering) women in rural Chinese films without placing that commentary within a frame of orientalism and transnational consumerism.
      • The procedure and the idea behind Japanese bath taking is clearly explained, without the oft-found orientalism.
      • How was orientalism played out in the development of American culture and American identity as a nation?
      • The author discusses the Zionizatiion of Christianity and its relationship to orientalism.
      • Orientalism is not defused by tourism, ecclesiastical or otherwise.
      • In accordance with the strategy of orientalism, and relying on the electronic and print media, the myths of the Other are created and perpetuated.
      • The European position bore all the earmarks of what Edward Said has called orientalism.
      • Kondo distinguishes between western forms of orientalism, autoexoticisms by Asian subjects, and counter-orientalisms that subvert western modes of apprehending discursively produced Asian identities.
      • The counterargument against the appropriateness of this metaphor is the over-commercialization of the Buddha in neo-chinoiserie, in New Age religion and in other resurgent forms of orientalism.
 
 
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