occidentalism

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occidentalism

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From occidental + -ism.

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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 […]

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@misc{occidentalism_2026,
  title = {occidentalism},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/occidentalism},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}