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List of sinologists

A list of sinologists around the world, past and present. Sinology is commonly defined as the academic study of China primarily through Chinese language, literature, and history, and often refers to Western scholarship. Its origin "may be traced to the examination which Chinese scholars made of their own civilization."[1]

The field of sinology was historically seen to be equivalent to the application of philology to China, and until the 20th century was generally seen as meaning "Chinese philology" (language and literature).[2] Sinology has broadened in modern times to include Chinese history, epigraphy, and other subjects.

Australia

Austria

  • Michael Prochazka

Belgium

Bulgaria

  • Snejina Gogova

Canada

  • Timothy Brook
  • Charles Burton
  • Jerome Ch'en (born 1919)
  • Edwin G. Pulleyblank
  • Michael Szonyi
  • Chia-ying Yeh

China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau

  • James Dyer Ball (1847-1919)
  • Yuen Ren Chao
  • C. T. Hsia
  • Huang Xianfan
  • D. C. Lau
  • Li Xueqin
  • Rao Zongyi
  • Qian Mu
  • Qiu Xigui
  • Wang Li, linguist
  • Wang Tao, archaeologist
  • Wang Zhongshu
  • Xia Nai
  • Yang Bojun

Czech Republic

Estonia

France

  • Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674–1743)
  • Arcade Huang (1679–1717)
  • Étienne Fourmont (1683–1745)
  • Jean Denis Attiret (1702–1768)
  • Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–1793)
  • Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788–1832) – studied languages of the Far East and produced the Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises,[3] and the Chinese novel Iu-kiao-li, ou les deux cousines, roman chinois.
  • Stanislas Julien (1797–1873)
  • Séraphin Couvreur (1835–1919)
  • Léopold de Saussure (1886–1925)
  • Léon Wieger (1956–1933)
  • Édouard Chavannes (1865–1918) – best known for his 1) translations from Sima Qian's Shiji, sections of the Hou Hanshu, and the Weilüe 2) studies of Han dynasty stone carvings and Chinese religion, including the groundbreaking study of the worship of Mount Tai in ancient China. His students included Henri Maspero, Paul Pelliot and Marcel Granet.
  • Paul Pelliot (1878–1945)
  • Victor Segalen (1878–1919) – scholar of ancient Chinese sculpture
  • Henri Maspero (1883–1945)
  • Paul Demiéville – studied the Franco-Belgian school of Buddhology. His 1947 work 'Mirror of the Mind' was widely read in the U.S. and inaugurated a series by him on subitism and gradualism.[4]
  • Marcel Granet (1884–1940) – one of the first to use sociological methods
  • Jean Escarra (1885–1955)
  • René Grousset (1885–1952)
  • Étienne Balazs (1905–1963)
  • Jacques Gernet (1921-2018)
  • François Jullien (born 1951)
  • Anne Cheng (born 1955)
  • David Gosset (born 1970)
  • Corinne Debaine-Francfort (birth date unknown)
  • Michel Soymié (1924–2002)

Joël Bellassen (born 1950) Christian Lamouroux (born 1951)

Germany

  • Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874) – linguist; author of comprehensive Chinesische Grammatik.
  • Herbert Franke (1914–2011) – historian of Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties.
  • Otto Franke (1863–1946)
  • Wolfgang Franke (1912–2007), son of Otto
  • Emil Krebs (1867–1930) – Polyglot
  • Yu-chien Kuan (1931–2018)
  • Wolfgang Kubin (born 1945)
  • Walter Liebenthal (1886–1982)
  • Klaus Mühlhahn (born 1963)
  • Christian Schwarz-Schilling (born 1930)
  • Erling von Mende (born 1940)
  • Rudolf G. Wagner (born 1941)
  • Richard Wilhelm (1873–1930) – his translations of the I Ching and other philosophical works popularized classical Chinese thought throughout the Western World.

Hungary

  • Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky (born 1974)
  • Étienne Balazs (1905–1963)
  • Imre Galambos (born 1967)
  • Imre Hamar (born 1968)
  • László Ladány (1914–1990)
  • Lajos Magyar (1891–1940)
  • Zsolt Tokaji (born 1971)

India

  • Tan Yun-Shan (1898-1983)
  • Tan Chung
  • Yukteshwar Kumar
  • B R Deepak
  • Prabodh Chandra Bagchi
  • Srikanth Kondapalli

Ireland

Italy

Japan

  • Masaru Aoki 靑木正兒 (1887–1964)
  • Tetsuji Morohashi 諸橋轍次 (1883–1982)
  • A. Charles Muller
  • D. T. Suzuki 鈴木大拙 (1870–1966)
  • Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 (1866–1945)
  • Kōjirō Yoshikawa 吉川幸次郎; 18 March 1904 – 8 April 1980)
  • Yoshimi Takeuchi 竹內好 (1910–1977)
  • Naitō Torajirō 內藤虎次郎 (1866–1934)
  • Fukui Fumimasa 福井文雅 (1934–2017)

Kazakhstan

  • Yury Zuev (1932–2006)

Moldova

  • Nicolae Milescu – Moldavian writer, traveler, geographer, and diplomat who was named ambassador of the Russian Empire to Beijing in 1675. He submitted to the Foreign Ministry three volumes of notes of his travels through Siberia and China and later Travels through Siberia to the Chinese borders.

Netherlands

See also W.L. Idema, Chinese studies in the Netherlands : past, present and future (Leiden: Brill, 2014)

  • J.J.L. Duyvendak (1889–1954)
  • Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (1854–1921), scholar of Chinese folk religion
  • Robert van Gulik (1910–1967)
  • Hans van de Ven

New Zealand

Norway

  • Henry Henne (1918–2002)

Poland

  • Michał Boym

Portugal

  • Gaspar da Cruz (c.1520–1570), author of the first book on China in Western Europe
  • Bento de Góis (c.1562–1607), historian from China

Philippines

  • Alfredo Co
  • Aileen S.P. Baviera

Russia

  • Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin (1775–1853)
  • Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov (1817–1878)
  • Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov (1932–2013)
  • Peter A. Boodberg (1903–1972)
  • Julian Shchutsky (1897–1938)
  • Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev (1881–1951)
  • Nikolai Iosifovich Konrad (1891–1970)
  • Nikolai Fedorenko (1912–2000)
  • Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954)

Singapore

Slovenia

  • Jana S. Rošker
  • Mitja Saje

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

  • 'Ali Akbar Khata'i, the author of an early book of China (completed in Istanbul in 1516)

United Kingdom

United States

Venezuela

  • Alfredo Toro Hardy (born 1950)

Notes

  1. ^ Zurndorfer (1999), p. 4.
  2. ^ Honey (2001), p. xi.
  3. ^ Kistner, Otto (1869). "Full title of Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises". Buddha and his doctrines: a bibliographical essay. London: Tübner & Co. p. 27.
  4. ^ See Chan/Zen Studies in English: The State Of The Field by Bernard Faure Archived 11 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine

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