Asianism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency that arose in the third century BC, favouring emotion, bombast and wordplay over austere formality, and distinguished by the use of a prose rhythm. historical, uncountable
  2. 2
    A behaviour or utterance that is characteristic of Asian people. countable, uncountable

    "[…] this historicization that allowed and even forced Chinese intellectuals to develop conceptual linkages to neighboring peoples and that permitted the production of new types of globalisms, Asianisms, and nationalisms."

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"[…] this historicization that allowed and even forced Chinese intellectuals to develop conceptual linkages to neighboring peoples and that permitted the production of new types of globalisms, Asianisms, and nationalisms."

Etymology

From Asian + -ism.

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