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Sinologist

American  
[sahy-nol-uh-jist, si-] / saɪˈnɒl ə dʒɪst, sɪ- /
Also Sinologue

noun

  1. a person who specializes in Sinology.


Etymology

Origin of Sinologist

1830–40; Sinologue ( see Sino-, -logue) + -ist


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“Chinese strategy has a tremendous concern with manipulating the other side’s view,” said Michael Pillsbury, a leading Sinologist who has worked on China policy with multiple U.S. administrations.

From Washington Times ● May 4, 2023

My partner’s a Sinologist, so a good part of one wall is red.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2020

In an op-ed in a local Chinese-language daily newspaper, New York University legal scholar and Sinologist Jerry Cohen voiced support for Chan for his work in promoting academic interaction among Chinese lawyers and scholars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2015

Professor John Delury, a Sinologist at Seoul's Yonsei University, says that China's approach to South Korea is strikingly different to its image elsewhere in the region.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2014

To which the Sinologist replied very suavely and apologetically indeed that he was “very sorry,” but had never seen the article in p. 193the Knickerbocker, &c. 

From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

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