Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sinologue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A student of China and the Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, history, politics and culture. Same as
sinologue .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A student or expert in
sinology .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a student of Chinese history and language and culture
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then in the early 20th century the sinologist Edmund Backhouse published with a journalist a counterfeit memoir supposedly written by a member of the royal court of the last Empress Dowager of China.
A Blog, a Hoax and a Literary Tradition Joe Queenan 2011
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Then in the early 20th century the sinologist Edmund Backhouse published with a journalist a counterfeit memoir supposedly written by a member of the royal court of the last Empress Dowager of China.
A Blog, a Hoax and a Literary Tradition Joe Queenan 2011
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The sinologist John Chinnery, who has died aged 86, served as the head of the department of Chinese at Edinburgh University for more than 25 years and was a co-founder of the Scotland-China Association.
John Chinnery obituary Frances Wood 2010
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"Cultural Pictures from China" celebrates the life and work of German sinologist Otto Franke (1863-1946) through paintings and objects from his studies in Asia.
Time Off Europe 2010
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• John Derry Chinnery, sinologist, born 30 June 1924; died 12 October 2010
John Chinnery obituary Frances Wood 2010
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The Max Planck Institute was quick to acknowledge its error explaining that it had consulted a German sinologist prior to publication of the text.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Expensive translation mistake for Science journal 2008
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But it also holds true in a different sense today, exactly a century since van Gulik's birth the Dutch diplomat and sinologist would be almost entirely forgotten were it not for his fictional doppelganger.
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"Cultural Pictures from China" celebrates the life and work of German sinologist Otto Franke (1863-1946) through paintings and objects from his studies in Asia.
Time Off Europe 2010
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"Cultural Pictures from China" celebrates the life and work of German sinologist Otto Franke (1863-1946) through paintings and objects from his studies in Asia.
Time Off Europe 2010
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G.H. Luce, a pioneering sinologist in the early twentieth century, has utilized Chinese records to discuss countries/city-states around Burma.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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