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occidentalism en · NOUN

Etymology

From occidental + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The habits and attitudes of westerners.
    • 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: