sinologue

"A sinologue is a man who understands the Chinese language," Bob Eden smiled.

Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

A "sinologue," he will tell you, must be an imbecile, for no one but a fool would give so much time to a study so unprofitable.

Appearances Being Notes of Travel 1897

I was tolerably good at languages and I though I might find an easier living as a sinologue than as a shepherd.

A Conversation with Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons 2010

In this connection I am projecting a ray of hope that some day when a History of Chinese Philosophy by some other Chinese scholar appears comparable to Windelband's Geschichte der Philosophie, there will be some other sinologue in the English-speaking countries attempting to make his translation of the work from the Chinese as exquisite as Tufts 'translation of

The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu 1959

Dr. Giles was a leading sinologue at the time and an assistant in the Department of Oriental Printed Books and

The Art of War 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi

A sinologue has not time to learn how to write poetry; a poet has no time to learn how to read Chinese.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

Still, in a way, he is proud of the sinologue -- as a public school is proud of a boy so clever as to verge upon insanity, or a village is proud of the village idiot.

Appearances Being Notes of Travel 1897

A distinguished sinologue is the doctor, one of the finest Chinese scholars in the Empire, author of "China and the Roman Orient," "Ancient Porcelain," and an elaborate "Textbook of Documentary Chinese," which is in the hands of most of the Customs staff in China, for whose assistance it was specially written.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

The eminent sinologue, Aston, has shrewdly pointed out that the term wani (crocodile) may be a corruption of the Korean word, wang-in

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

If he had wished to say what the French sinologue thinks he does say, moreover, he would probably have written {.} {.} {.} {.} {.}.

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003