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  • noun a strong interest in the country, culture, or people of China

Etymologies

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From Sino- + -philia

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Examples

  • It is also, though, a thoughtful reflection on long-term trends in Western thinking about China, highlighting the swings between and occasional combining of "Sinophobia" and "Sinomania" a term Anderson uses where some others might use Sinophilia.

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China in 2010: A 13-Link Retrospective Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2011

  • It is also, though, a thoughtful reflection on long-term trends in Western thinking about China, highlighting the swings between and occasional combining of "Sinophobia" and "Sinomania" a term Anderson uses where some others might use Sinophilia.

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China in 2010: A 13-Link Retrospective Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2011

  • The debate could not proceed, however, until several claims of Sinophilia were exacted.

    Matthew Harrison Tedford: Chinese for Affirmative Action Mayoral Debate: Central Subway, Bruce Lee, and Zynga Matthew Harrison Tedford 2011

  • It is also, though, a thoughtful reflection on long-term trends in Western thinking about China, highlighting the swings between and occasional combining of "Sinophobia" and "Sinomania" a term Anderson uses where some others might use Sinophilia.

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China in 2010: A 13-Link Retrospective Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2011

  • It is also, though, a thoughtful reflection on long-term trends in Western thinking about China, highlighting the swings between and occasional combining of "Sinophobia" and "Sinomania" a term Anderson uses where some others might use Sinophilia.

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China in 2010: A 13-Link Retrospective Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2011

  • Which is all mere set-up for a closing flourish of telltale Sinophilia/phobia:

    Reason Magazine Matt Welch 2010

  • Which is all mere set-up for a closing flourish of telltale Sinophilia/phobia:

    Reason Magazine Matt Welch 2010

  • Which is all mere set-up for a closing flourish of telltale Sinophilia/phobia:

    Reason Magazine Matt Welch 2010

  • Talking heads then navel-gazed for days about whether Rudd's Sinophilia marked him out as some sort of Manchurian Candidate,

    Asia Times Online 2009

  • The highly talented Chris Roberson, recent winner of the Sidewise Award for his story 'O One', continues that tale’s vein of opulent Sinophilia in 'Red Hands, Black Hands' – in this alternate timeline, Imperial China dominates the world in place of Europe – but exacerbates the peculiarity of the setting by transferring it to a partly terraformed Mars ruled by the Mandarins.

    The Voyage of Night Shining White Lou Anders 2006

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