Also an history buff, with americanist and sinologist tendancies. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Who Are You?] Reference
• John Derry Chinnery, sinologist, born 30 June 1924; died 12 October 2010. From Wordnik.com. [John Chinnery obituary] Reference
I don't purport to be any kind of China "expert" - three weeks in the Middle Kingdom does not make a sinologist. From Wordnik.com. [An American Griswold In China, Days 1-3: The Gateway to the Mainland] Reference
Needham, we learn, though a distinguished embryologist, self-taught sinologist and general polymath, was susceptible to distractions. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Needham Biography] Reference
G.H. Luce, a pioneering sinologist in the early twentieth century, has utilized Chinese records to discuss countries/city-states around Burma. From Wordnik.com. [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference
The Max Planck Institute was quick to acknowledge its error explaining that it had consulted a German sinologist prior to publication of the text. From Wordnik.com. [Web Translations » Blog Archive » Expensive translation mistake for Science journal] Reference
"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. From Wordnik.com. [Time Off Europe] Reference
Close at hand is the viewpoint from which the novel stands out as a study of a type of man who isolates himself in self-sufficient specialization - here, the sinologist Peter. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 - Press Release] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [John Chinnery obituary] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Dutch Diplomat in the Tang Imperial Court] Reference
Influenced by the research of her second husband, world-renowned historian and sinologist Karl Wittfogel, whom she married in 1940, she wrote several essays on the importance of irrigation for Pueblo organization and ceremonial life. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Schiff Goldfrank.] Reference
Sadly, none of my sinologist friends know what to make of this. From Wordnik.com. [Ask MetaFilter] Reference
Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare, missionary and sinologist, born at. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The study of Chinese has become increasingly popular in France, says a French sinologist. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"The Chinese people," says one well-known sinologist, "are not prone to mythological invention.". From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of China] Reference
+ the Hellmut Wilhelm collection books from Professor Wilhelm, a former UW faculty member and renounced sinologist. From Wordnik.com. [National Central Library of Taiwan to Collaborate with UW Libraries’ East Asia Library to Digitize Rare Chinese Classic Books « ResourceShelf] Reference
Prior to publication, the editorial office had consulted a German sinologist for a translation of the relevant text. From Wordnik.com. [格致] Reference
The sinologist concluded that the text in question depicted classical Chinese characters in an non-controversial context. From Wordnik.com. [格致] Reference
English sinologist, James Legge, calls it "an invaluable work, of which it could hardly be possible to speak in too high terms". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
"It was hard even to apply for a visa to visit China then," says Lai Kuan Fook, 70, a Chinese scholar and sinologist from Perlis. From Wordnik.com. Reference
David Hawkes, the sinologist, later joked that Yang's translation "bears as much resemblance to the original as a chocolate Easter egg to an omelette". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"I think Confucian values are the best part of American values," says a woman, stating what might be one of this blog's themes, quoted by sinologist Sam Crane. From Wordnik.com. [西儒 ─ The Western Confucian] Reference
A self-proclaimed "accidental sinologist," Leonard asserts that as the West worries about how China might progress, China has yet to reach a consensus on the matter. From Wordnik.com. Reference
An American sinologist, writing on such issues, notes that, like European colonial powers, China used cartography to further its "Colonial Enterprise" in Tibet and Korea. From Wordnik.com. [Phayul Latest News] Reference
A writer once illustrated this by quoting an imaginary politician who said something like this: "I'll have you know that my opponent is not only a sinologist, but also a sexagenarian.". From Wordnik.com. [The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO Home] Reference
Might as well delete "necessarily"; I only know of one sinologist who had real English style, and she was basically frozen out of the field (which was then extremely sexist-I have no idea what it's like now). From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
People are paying attention, "says sinologist David Zweig at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. From Wordnik.com. [War of Wills] Reference
A recipe in Chinese which I'm a bit too lazy to translate but will if you can't get your sinologist friends to do it. From Wordnik.com. [Ask MetaFilter] Reference
Fr. Gaubil praises his "sane criticism" on the subject, and the English sinologist James Legge writes: "Régis is known as the interpreter of the Yih-king. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Now is the time to realize that we have to be practical and realize that the Communists are in control and are running things and let's recognize them, "including John K. Fairbank, the very famous sinologist up at Harvard. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary for Freedom: The Life and Times of Walter Judd] Reference
A Dutch sinologist keeps Taiwan puppetry alive. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
One Response to "A sinologist in Iraq". From Wordnik.com. [Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China] Reference
3 Oct., 1844), a great sinologist, author of "Arte China", and several grammars and dictionaries, and the celebrated naturalist Armand David, (b. at. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Budding sinologist. From Wordnik.com. [The Myth of the strategic location of the Taiwan Strait] Reference
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