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Sinology

noun
1.
The study of Chinese history and language and culture.





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"Sinology" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fathers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to whom we owe so much for pioneer work in the domain of Sinology, were not without occasional lapses of the kind, due no doubt to a laudable if excessive zeal. Finding the character [chuan], which is the common word for "a ship," as indicated by [zhou], the earlier picture-character for "boat" seen on the left-hand ...
— China and the Chinese • Herbert Allen Giles


Words linked to "Sinology" :   arts, Sinologist, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts


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