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Sinologist  n.  A student of China and the Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, history, politics and culture. Same as sinologue.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sinologist" Quotes from Famous Books



... my subject. In another chapter I propose, on the authority of Professor Neumann, a learned Sinologist of Munich, to set forth the proofs that in the last year of the fifth century a Buddhist priest, bearing the cloister name of Hoei-schin, or Universal Compassion, returned from America, and gave for the first time an official account of the country which he had visited, which account was recorded, ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I., No. IV., April, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... in it which had not already appeared in Bancroft's work on the Pacific. I wrote to him, pointing out the fact that Bancroft's work did not appear till many years after my article in the Knickerbocker. To which the Sinologist replied very suavely and apologetically indeed that he was "very sorry," but had never seen the article in the Knickerbocker, &c. But he did not publish the correction, as he should have done. For which reason I now vindicate myself ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland



Words linked to "Sinologist" :   scholar, scholarly person



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