sinologist

IPA: sinˈɑɫʌdʒɪst

Examples of "sinologist" in Sentences

• John Derry Chinnery, sinologist, born 30 June 1924; died 12 October 2010
G.H. Luce, a pioneering sinologist in the early twentieth century, has utilized Chinese records to discuss countries/city-states around Burma.
The Max Planck Institute was quick to acknowledge its error explaining that it had consulted a German sinologist prior to publication of the text.
"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.
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.
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.
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.