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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

Example Sentences

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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

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

Writing in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Sinologist Tilman Spengler disagreed, saying wryly: “China’s security forces are sovereign enough to work according to their own timetable.”

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2011

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 Leland, Charles Godfrey

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