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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

sinology (“study of China”) +‎ -ist. Alternatively, sino- (“China”) + -logist (“student of, expert on”).

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • • John Derry Chinnery, sinologist, born 30 June 1924; died 12 October 2010

    John Chinnery obituary Frances Wood 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    A Dutch Diplomat in the Tang Imperial Court 2010

  • "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

  • "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

  • 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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