occidentalist

English

Etymology

occidental +‎ -ist

Noun

occidentalist (plural occidentalists)

1. One who studies occidental languages.
2. A person who favours Western ideas or customs.
   • 2001, Shumei Shi, The Lure of the Modern:

     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 […]