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- noun The study of the
history ,language andculture ofChina
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1927 he transfered to the Leipzig University, where he joined his interest in sinology to economics.
Gunter Eich greenintegerblog 2008
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In the year 1929-1930 he took courses in sinology at the Sorbonne in Paris, and continued his studies in economics, without completing his degree.
Gunter Eich greenintegerblog 2008
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Her work has been further influenced by her studies in sinology and her many years living in Japan.
Susanne Jorn greenintegerblog 2008
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For several years she lived in France before graduating from Københavns Universitet with an M.A. in sinology.
Susanne Jorn greenintegerblog 2008
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Absolutely worth an hour reading if you get all wet and slippery over etymology and sinology, and enjoy laughing your arse off at the kind of people like Peacetime sounds like decaffeinated coffee substitute who don't quite get that tearing a character back to its roots doesn't necessarily tell you anything about it.
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In the undertaking of reproducing in a Western language, utterly alien to the original Chinese literary medium, Huan K'uan's first nineteen chapters, I have been fortunate in availing myself of the methods of the European school of sinology.
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The new port richey florida homes of foliose to a memorisation basketmaker is to sinology snorting, to twitching him into your gaminess to cabaret and syntagm you.
Rational Review 2009
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From conversations with persons who had no relationship whatsoever with sinology - doctors, engineers, scholars, and so forth - I know the degree of interest with which my book was read
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