sinology
IPA: sinˈɑɫʌdʒi
noun
- (humanities) The study of the history, language and culture of China; Chinese studies.
- (Cold War, politics, espionage) The study of the internal politics of the high members of the government of the People's Republic of China.
- Alternative letter-case form of sinology [(humanities) The study of the history, language and culture of China; Chinese studies.]
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Examples of "sinology" in Sentences
- Her work has been further influenced by her studies in sinology and her many years living in Japan.
- In 1927 he transfered to the Leipzig University, where he joined his interest in sinology to economics.
- For several years she lived in France before graduating from Københavns Universitet with an M.A. in sinology.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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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