A list of

sinologist Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilizatio ...

s 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." The field of sinology was historically seen to be equivalent to the application of

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

to China, and until the 20th century was generally seen as meaning "Chinese philology" (language and literature). Sinology has broadened in modern times to include Chinese history, epigraphy, and other subjects.

Australia

Rafe de Crespigny Richard Rafe Champion de Crespigny (born 1936), also known by his Chinese name Zhang Leifu (), is an Australian sinologist and historian. He is an adjunct professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. ...

Charles Patrick Fitzgerald Charles Patrick Fitzgerald (5 March 190213 April 1992) was a British historian and writer whose academic career occurred mostly in Australia. He was a professor of East Asian studies with particular focus on China. Early life and education Fitz ...

Colin Mackerras Colin Patrick Mackerras (; born 26 August 1939 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian sinologist, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, and specialist in Chinese culture. He has published on Chinese drama, national minorities of China, ...

Robert Henry Mathews Robert Henry Mathews (1877–1970) was an Australian missionary and Sinologist, best known for his 1931 '' A Chinese-English Dictionary: Compiled for the China Inland Mission by R. H. Mathews'', which was subsequently revised by Harvard Universit ...

John Minford John Minford (born 22 June 1946) is a British sinologist and literary translator. He is primarily known for his translation of Chinese classics such as 40 chapters of '' The Story of the Stone'', ''The Art of War'', the ''I Ching'' and the ''Tao ...

* Pierre Ryckmans * Yingjie Guo *

Kevin Rudd Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and June to September 2013. He held office as the Leaders of the Australian Labo ...

Austria

* Michael Prochazka

Belgium

Simon Leys Pierre Ryckmans (28 September 1935 – 11 August 2014), better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary critic, translator, art historian, sinologist, and university professor, who lived in Austral ...

* Roel Sterckx (born 1969) *

Antoine Thomas Antoine Thomas (25 January 1644 – 29 June 1709) was a Jesuit priest from the Spanish Netherlands, and missionary and astronomer in Qing China. His Chinese name was 安多. Early life Born in Namur, Belgium in 1644, Thomas joined the Societ ...

Ferdinand Verbiest Ferdinand Verbiest, (9 October 1623 – 28 January 1688) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Pittem near Tielt in the County of Flanders (now part of Belgium). He is known as Nan Huairen () in Chine ...

* Dan Vercammen (www.taoiststudies.org)

Bulgaria

* Snejina Gogova

Canada

Timothy Brook Timothy James Brook ( Chinese name: 卜正民; born January 6, 1951) is a Canadian historian, sinologist, and writer specializing in the study of China (sinology). He holds the Republic of China Chair, Department of History, University of British ...

* Charles Burton * Jerome Ch'en (born 1919) * Edwin G. Pulleyblank * Michael Szonyi *

Chia-ying Yeh Florence Chia-ying Yeh (July 2, 1924 – November 24, 2024), also known as Ye Jiaying ( zh, t=葉嘉瑩, s=叶嘉莹), Jialing ( zh, c=迦陵, labels=no), and by her married name Chia-ying Yeh Chao, was a Chinese-born Taiwanese-Canadian poet ...

China

James Dyer Ball James Dyer Ball (波乃耶) (4 December 1847 in Canton, China – 22 February 1919 in London, England) was a Hong Kong scholar and author born in Canton. He is noted for his works on Chinese culture and for contributing to the development of the s ...

(1847–1919) *

Yuen Ren Chao Yuen Ren Chao (Chinese: 趙元任; 3 November 189225 February 1982), also known as Zhao Yuanren, was a Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer, who contributed to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar. Chao ...

C. T. Hsia Hsia Chih-tsing (; January 11, 1921 – December 29, 2013), or C. T. Hsia, was a Chinese historian and literary theorist. He contributed to the introduction of modern Chinese literature to the Western world by promoting the works of once ma ...

Huang Xianfan Huang Xianfan ( Zhuang: ; ; November 13, 1899 – January 18, 1982) was a Zhuang Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator. Huang is considered one of the founders of modern Chinese ethnology. He dedicated five decades of his life to the ...

D. C. Lau D. C. Lau (; 8 March 192126 April 2010) was a Chinese sinologist and author of the widely read translations of ''Tao Te Ching'', Mencius and ''The Analects'' and contributed to the Proper Cantonese pronunciation movement. D. C. Lau studied Chi ...

Li Xueqin Li Xueqin (, 28 March 1933 – 24 February 2019) was a Chinese historian, archaeologist, and palaeographer. He served as Director of the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Professor of the Institute of Sinology of ...

Rao Zongyi Jao Tsung-I or Rao Zongyi (; 9 August 1917 – 6 February 2018) was a Hong Kong sinologist, calligrapher, historian and painter. A versatile and prolific scholar, he contributed to many fields of humanities, including history, archaeology, epi ...

Qian Mu Ch'ien Mu or Qian Mu (; 30 July 1895 – 30 August 1990) was a Chinese historian, philosopher and writer. He is considered to be one of the greatest historians and philosophers of 20th-century China. Ch'ien, together with Lü Simian, Chen Yin ...

Qiu Xigui Qiu Xigui (; (13 July 1935 – 8 May 2025) was a Chinese historian, palaeographer, and professor of Fudan University. His book ''Chinese Writing'' is considered the "single most influential study of Chinese palaeography". Early life and educa ...

* Wang Li, linguist * Wang Tao, archaeologist *

Wang Zhongshu Wang Zhongshu (; 15 October 1925 – 24 September 2015) was a Chinese archaeologist who helped to establish and develop the field of archaeology in China. One of the most prominent Asian archaeologists, he was awarded the Grand Prize of the Fuk ...

Xia Nai Xia Nai (Wade–Giles: ''Shiah Nae''; 1910–1985) was a pioneering Chinese archaeologist. He was born in Wenzhou, southern Zhejiang province. He was the second son of Xia Yuyi (夏禹彝) who was a wealthy farmer. Xia was given the first nam ...

Yang Bojun Yang Bojun (; 1 September 1909 − 1992) was a Chinese philologist best known for his ''Chunqiu Zuozhuan Zhu'' (), an annotated commentary of the ancient Chinese historical text and Confucian classic ''Zuo Zhuan''. The work took him more than tw ...

Czech Republic

Gustav Haloun Gustav Haloun (12 January 1898, Brtnice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary — 24 December 1951, Cambridge, England) was a Czech sinologist. He studied in Vienna under Arthur von Rosthorn and in Leipzig under August Conrady from where he received his D ...

(1898–1951) *

Jaroslav Průšek Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980) was a Czech sinologist. He was considered as the founder of the Prague School of Sinology. He trained as an historian, with an interest in the history of ancient Greece, Byzantium and Roman Empire at Charles Unive ...

(1906–1980)

Estonia

Linnart Mäll Linnart Mäll (7 June 1938 – 14 February 2010) was an Estonian historian, orientalist, translator and politician. Biography Born in Tallinn, Estonia, Mäll graduated from the University of Tartu in 1962 with a major in general history. He ...

France

Jean-Baptiste Du Halde Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (, Pinyin: ''Dù Hèdé''; 1 February 1674 – 18 August 1743) was a French Jesuit historian specializing in China. He did not travel to China, but collected seventeen Jesuit missionaries' reports and provided an encyclop ...

(1674–1743) *

Arcade Huang Arcadio Huang (, born in Xinghua, modern Putian, in Fujian, 15 November 1679, died on 1 October 1716 in Paris)Mungello, p.125 was a Chinese Christian convert, brought to Paris by the Missions étrangères. He took a pioneering role in the teach ...

(1679–1717) *

Étienne Fourmont Étienne Fourmont (23 June 1683 – 8 December 1745) was a French scholar and Orientalist who served as professor of Arabic at the Collège de France and published grammars on the Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese languages. Although Fourmont is ...

(1683–1745) *

Jean Denis Attiret Jean Denis Attiret (, 31 July 1702 – 8 December 1768) was a French Jesuit painter and missionary to Qing dynasty, Qing China. Early life Attiret was born in Dole, Jura, Dole, France. He studied art in Rome and made himself a name as a ...

(1702–1768) *

Jean Joseph Marie Amiot Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (; February 8, 1718October 8, 1793) was a French Jesuit priest who worked in Qing China, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. Born in Toulon, Amiot entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at the age of 19. Af ...

(1718–1793) *

Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (; 5 September 1788 – 2 June 1832) was a French sinologist best known as the first Chair of Sinology at the Collège de France. Rémusat studied medicine as a young man, but his discovery of a Chinese herbal treati ...

(1788–1832) – studied languages of the Far East and produced the ''Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises'', and the Chinese novel ''Iu-kiao-li, ou les deux cousines, roman chinois.'' *

Stanislas Julien Stanislas Aignan Julien (13 April 179714 February 1873) was a French sinologist who served as the Chair of Chinese at the Collège de France for over 40 years and was one of the most academically respected sinologists in French scholarship. Jul ...

(1797–1873) *

Séraphin Couvreur Séraphin Couvreur (; EFEO Chinese transcription: kóu sái fēn; 14 January 1835 – 19 November 1919) was a French Jesuit missionary to China, sinologist, and creator of the EFEO Chinese transcription. The system devised by Couvreur of the ...

(1835–1919) * Léopold de Saussure (1886–1925) *

Léon Wieger Léon Wieger (born 9 July 1856 in Strasbourg, France - died 25 March 1933 in Xian County, Hebei, China), was a French Jesuit missionary, medical doctor, theologist and sinologist who worked at the Catholic Jesuit mission in Hejian, together with ...

(1956–1933) *

Édouard Chavannes Émmanuel-Édouard Chavannes (5 October 1865 – 29 January 1918) was a French sinologist and expert on Chinese history and religion, and is best known for his translations of major segments of Sima Qian's ''Records of the Grand Historian'' ...

(1865–1918) – best known for his 1) translations from

Sima Qian Sima Qian () was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for the ''Shiji'' (sometimes translated into English as ''Records of the Grand Historian''), a general history of China cov ...

's ''

Shiji The ''Shiji'', also known as ''Records of the Grand Historian'' or ''The Grand Scribe's Records'', is a Chinese historical text that is the first of the Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. It was written during the late 2nd and early 1st cen ...

'', sections of the ''Hou Hanshu'', and the ''Weilüe'' 2) studies of

Han dynasty The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...

stone carvings and Chinese religion, including the groundbreaking study of the worship of

Mount Tai Mount Tai () is a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city of Tai'an. It is the highest point in Shandong province, China. The tallest peak is the ''Jade Emperor Peak'' (), which is commonly reported as being t ...

in ancient China. His students included

Henri Maspero Henri Paul Gaston Maspero (15 December 188317 March 1945) was a French sinologist and professor who contributed to a variety of topics relating to East Asia. Maspero is best known for his pioneering studies of Daoism. He was imprisoned by the Naz ...

Paul Pelliot Paul Eugène Pelliot (28 May 187826 October 1945) was a French sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and ...

and

Marcel Granet Marcel Granet (; 29 February 1884 – 25 November 1940) was a French sociologist, ethnologist and sinologist. As a follower of Émile Durkheim and Édouard Chavannes, Granet was one of the first to bring sociological methods to the study ...

. *

(1878–1945) *

Victor Segalen Victor Segalen (14 January 1878 – 21 May 1919) was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic. He was born in Brest. He studied medicine and graduated at the Nav ...

(1878–1919) – scholar of ancient Chinese sculpture *

(1883–1945) *

Paul Demiéville Paul Demiéville (13 September 1894 – 23 March 1979) was a Swiss-French sinologist and Orientalist known for his studies of the Dunhuang manuscripts and Buddhism and his translations of Chinese poetry, as well as for his 30-year tenure as ...

– studied the Franco-Belgian school of

Buddhology Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism. The term ''Buddhology'' was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the nature of the Bud ...

. His 1947 work 'Mirror of the Mind' was widely read in the U.S. and inaugurated a series by him on

subitism Sudden awakening or Sudden enlightenment (), also known as subitism, is a Buddhist idea which holds that practitioners can achieve an instantaneous insight into ultimate reality (Buddha-nature, or the nature of mind). This awakening is describe ...

and gradualism. *

(1884–1940) – one of the first to use sociological methods * Jean Escarra (1885–1955) *

René Grousset René Grousset (; 5 September 1885 – 12 September 1952) was a French historian who was curator of both the Cernuschi Museum and the Guimet Museum in Paris and a member of the prestigious Académie française. He wrote several major works on ...

(1885–1952) *

Étienne Balazs Étienne Balazs (born István Balázs; 24 January 1905 – 29 November 1963) was a Hungarian-born French sinologist. Major works * ''Le traité économique du "Soueichou"'', (Leiden: Brill, 1953)Google Books * ''Le traité juridique du "Soueic ...

(1905–1963) *

Nicole Vandier-Nicolas Nicole Vandier-Nicolas (24 July 1906 – 1 March 1987), also known as Nicole Nicolas, was a French Sinology , sinologist, professor and Philosophy , philosopher. She was specialized in Chinese art and Buddhism. She was the “first to suggest ...

(1906–1987) *

Jacques Gernet Jacques Gernet (; zh, t=謝和耐, p=Xiè Hénài; 22 December 1921, Algiers, French Algeria – 3 March 2018, Vannes) was an eminent French sinologist of the second half of the 20th century. His best-known work is ''The Chinese Civilization'' ...

(1921–2018) *

Jean-Pierre Drège Jean-Pierre Drège (born 11 March 1946) is a French sinologist, specialising in the study of ancient books and the history of libraries, in particular Chinese manuscripts and . He has been working for years in the study of the Dunhuang manuscript ...

(born 1946) *

François Jullien François Jullien (born 2 June 1951) is a French philosopher, Hellenist, and sinologist. Biography An alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and holder (since 1974) of the ''agrégation'', France's professorial degree, François J ...

(born 1951) *

Anne Cheng Anne Cheng (; born 11 July 1955) is a French Sinologist who teaches at the Collège de France and specializes in Chinese history and the history of Chinese philosophy. Pablo Ariel Blitstein, the author of "A new debate about alterity," describe ...

(born 1955) * David Gosset (born 1970) *

Corinne Debaine-Francfort Corinne Debaine-Francfort is a French archaeologist and sinologist, a researcher at the CNRS specialised in the archaeology on Eastern Central Asia (Sinkiang or East Turkestan) and in the protohistory of north-west China. Career Debaine-Francf ...

(birth date unknown) *

Michel Soymié Michel Soymié (29 July 1924 – 14 July 2002; Chinese name: ; zh, w=Su Yüen-ming, p=Sū Yuǎnmíng) was a French scholar and author working in the field of Chinese popular religion and literature. As a professor at the École Pratique des Haute ...

(1924–2002) *

Joël Bellassen Joël "Marc" Bellassen or Bel Lassen (; ; born 27 May 1950 in Sidi-bel-Abbès, French Algeria) is a former professor () of Chinese language, Chinese at and the first Inspector General in the field of Chinese Language Teaching at the Ministry of ...

(born 1950)

Germany

Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz Georg von der Gabelentz (16 March 1840 – 11 December 1893) was a German general linguist and sinologist. His (1881), according to a critic, "remains until today recognized as probably the finest overall grammatical survey of the Classical Chine ...

(1807–1874) –

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

; author of comprehensive ''Chinesische Grammatik.'' * Herbert Franke (1914–2011) – historian of Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. * Otto Franke (1863–1946) *

Wolfgang Franke Wolfgang Leopold Friedrich Franke (; 24 July 1912 – 6 September 2007) was a German sinologist whose research was focused on the history of the Ming dynasty and of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. He served as Chair of Sinology at the U ...

(1912–2007), son of Otto * Emil Krebs (1867–1930) – Polyglot * Yu-chien Kuan (1931–2018) *

Wolfgang Kubin Wolfgang Kubin (; born December 17, 1945, in Celle) is a German poet, essayist, sinologist and translator of literary works. He is the former director of the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. Kubin has fr ...

(born 1945) *

Walter Liebenthal Walter Liebenthal (12 June 1886 – 15 November 1982), was a German philosopher and sinologist who specialized in Chinese Buddhism. He translated many philosophical works from Pali, Sanskrit and specially from Chinese into German. Based upon his e ...

(1886–1982) *

Klaus Mühlhahn Klaus Mühlhahn (born August 19, 1963) is a German historian and sinologist who was a Professor and Vice President of the Free University of Berlin. Since 2020 he serves as president of Zeppelin University. He was awarded the John K. Fairbank Prize ...

(born 1963) *

Christian Schwarz-Schilling Christian Schwarz-Schilling (born 19 November 1930) is an Austrian-born German politician, entrepreneur, philanthropist and media and telecommunications innovator who served as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2006 to 2007. Pr ...

(born 1930) * Erling von Mende (born 1940) *

Rudolf G. Wagner Rudolf G. Wagner (3 November 1941 — 25 October 2019) was a German sinologist. He was Senior Professor at the Department of Chinese Studies at the Heidelberg University and Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global ...

(born 1941) * Richard Wilhelm (1873–1930) – his translations of the ''

I Ching The ''I Ching'' or ''Yijing'' ( ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The ''I Ching'' was originally a divination manual in ...

'' and other philosophical works popularized classical Chinese thought throughout the Western World.

Greece

Dimitri Kitsikis Dimitri Kitsikis (; 2 June 1935 – 28 August 2021) was a Greek philosopher, Turkologist and Sinologist, as well as a professor of international relations and geopolitics. He also published poetry in French and Greek. Life Kitsikis was a Tur ...

(born 1935) Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics at the University of Ottawa * Konstantinos G. Polymeros, also known as 莫磊 in China (born 1995) -his translation of the

Dao De Jing The ''Tao Te Ching'' () or ''Laozi'' is a Chinese classic text and foundational work of Taoism traditionally credited to the sage Laozi, though the text's authorship and date of composition and compilation are debated. The oldest excavated po ...

(道德经) was the first in Greece to be rendered directly from the ancient Chinese text. He has also published various newspaper articles in both Greek and Chinese, along with translations and commentaries on Tang poetry. Polymeros currently teaches Chinese at the University of Western Macedonia.

Hungary

Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky (); born 12 July 1974 in Budapest, Hungary is a Hungarian Sinologist and Mongolist, mostly known for his historical linguistic research on Middle Mongol sources written in Chinese script, currently the Chair of the D ...

(born 1974) *

(1905–1963) *

Imre Galambos Imre Galambos ( zh, c=高奕睿, p=Gāo Yìruì; born 1967) is a Hungarian sinologist and Tangutologist who specialises in the study of medieval Chinese and Tangut manuscripts from Dunhuang. He is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the University ...

(born 1967) * Imre Hamar (born 1968) *

László Ladány Rev. László Ladányi (January 14, 1914 - September 23, 1990), in English also spelled Ladány or Ladany, was a Hungarian Jesuit, China watcher, author and editor of '' China News Analysis'', an influential periodical on Chinese affairs. Biograph ...

(1914–1990) *

Lajos Magyar Lajos Magyar (; 25 November 1891, Istvándi, Hungary – 17 July 1940, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Hungarian Communist journalist and sinologist, active in the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, after the fall of which he was imprisoned by the H ...

(1891–1940) *

Gábor Kósa Gábor Kósa (born 31 January 1971) is a Hungarian historian of religions, a professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Chinese Studies. (Chinese name: Kāng Gāobǎo; Traditional Chinese: 康高 ...

(born 1971) * Zsolt Tokaji (born 1971)

India

* Tan Yun-Shan (1898–1983) *

Tan Chung Tan Chung (born 18 April 1929, in Matubahar, Johor) is an authority on Chinese history, Sino-Indian relations and cultural exchange. He has been a doyen of Chinese cultural studies in India for nearly half a century. Early life After initial ed ...

* Yukteshwar Kumar * B R Deepak *

Prabodh Chandra Bagchi Prabodh Chandra Bagchi () (18 November 1898 – 19 January 1956) was one of the most notable Sino-Indologists of the 20th century. He was the third Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University. Early life and education He was born on 18 Novem ...

Srikanth Kondapalli Srikanth Kondapalli is a Professor of China studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Kondapalli is a frequent writer and commentator in the national and international media. He has been quoted regularly in BBC News, China Dai ...

Ireland

* Sean Hurley

Italy

Martino Martini Martino Martini (20 September 1614 – 6 June 1661) was a Jesuit China missions, Jesuit missionary born and raised in Trento (now in Italy, then a Prince-Bishopric of Trent, Prince-Bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire). As a cartographer and histo ...

(1614–1661) *

Matteo Ricci Matteo Ricci (; ; 6 October 1552 – 11 May 1610) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He created the , a 1602 map of the world written in Chinese characters. In 2022, the Apostolic See decl ...

(1552–1610) *

Michele Ruggieri Michele Ruggieri, SJ (born Pompilio Ruggieri and known in China as Luo Mingjian; 1543 – 11 May 1607) was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary. A founding father of the Jesuit China missions, co-author of the first European–Chinese dictiona ...

(1543–1607) *

Giuseppe Tucci Giuseppe Tucci (; 5 June 1894 – 5 April 1984) was an Italian orientalist, Indologist and scholar of East Asian studies, specializing in Tibetan culture and the history of Buddhism. During its zenith, Tucci was a supporter of Italian fascism ...

(1894–1984)

Japan

* Masaru Aoki 靑木正兒 (1887–1964) *

Tetsuji Morohashi was an important figure in the field of Japanese language studies and Sinology. He is best known as chief editor of the ''Dai Kan-Wa jiten'', a comprehensive dictionary of Chinese characters, or ''kanji''. Biography His younger days Tetsuji Mor ...

諸橋轍次 (1883–1982) *

A. Charles Muller A. Charles Muller (born September 19, 1953) is a Japan-based academic specializing in Korean Buddhism and East Asian Yogacara, having published numerous books and articles on these topics. He was one of the earliest developers of online research ...

* D. T. Suzuki 鈴木大拙 (1870–1966) *

Takakusu Junjirō , who often published as J. Takakusu, was a Japanese academic, an advocate for expanding higher education opportunities, and an internationally known Buddhist scholar.

高楠順次郎 (1866–1945) *

Kōjirō Yoshikawa was a Japanese sinologist noted for his studies of Chinese history and Classical Chinese literature, especially the '' Book of Documents (Shujing)'' and ''Analects of Confucius''. Yoshikawa was awarded many honors for his scholarship, including ...

吉川幸次郎; 18 March 1904 – 8 April 1980) *

Yoshimi Takeuchi was a Japanese Sinologist. Biography Yoshimi Takeuchi was a Sinologist, a cultural critic and translator. He studied Chinese author Lu Xun and translated Lu's works into Japanese. His book-length study, ''Lu Xun'' (1944) ignited a significant ...

竹內好 (1910–1977) *

Naitō Torajirō Naitō, Naito or Naitou (written: 内藤) is a Japanese name, also transliterated as Naitoh or Nightow. Notable people with the surname include: * , vice president of Lenovo's PC and Smart Devices business unit, known as the "Father of ThinkPad" * ...

內藤虎次郎 (1866–1934) * Fukui Fumimasa 福井文雅 (1934–2017)

Kazakhstan

Yury Zuev Yuri Alexeyevich Zuev or Zuyev (; 8 December 1932 – 5 December 2006) was a Russian-born Kazakhstani sinologist and turkologist. Biography Zuev was born in the Siberian city of Tyumen in a white-collar family. Zuev studied at the Lenin ...

(1932–2006)

Moldova

Nicolae Milescu Nikolai Spathari (; 1636–1708), also known as Nicolae Milescu and Nicolae Milescu Spătaru (, first name also ''Neculai'', signing in Latin as Nicolaus Spadarius Moldavo-Laco, ), or '' Spătarul Milescu-Cârnu'' (trans.: "Chancellor Milescu t ...

–

Moldavia Moldavia (, or ; in Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, Romanian Cyrillic: or ) is a historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River. An initially in ...

n writer, traveler,

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

, 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

J.J.L. Duyvendak Jan Julius Lodewijk Duyvendak (28 June 18899 July 1954) was a Dutch Sinologist and professor of Chinese language, Chinese at Leiden University. He is known for his translation of ''The Book of Lord Shang'' and his studies of the ''Dao De Jing''. ...

(1889–1954) *

Jan Jakob Maria de Groot Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (18 February 185424 September 1921) was a Dutch sinologist and historian of religion. He taught at the Leiden University and later at the University of Berlin, and is chiefly remembered for his monumental work, ''The Relig ...

(1854–1921), scholar of Chinese folk religion *

Robert van Gulik Robert Hans van Gulik (, 9 August 1910 – 24 September 1967) was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician (of the guqin), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century ...

(1910–1967) * Hans van de Ven *

Erik Zürcher Erik Zürcher (13 September 1928, in Utrecht – 7 February 2008, in Warmond) was a Dutch Sinologist. From 1962 to 1993, Zürcher was a professor of history of East Asia at the Leiden University. He was also Director of the Sinological Institut ...

(1928–2008)

New Zealand

Rewi Alley Rewi Alley (known in China as 路易•艾黎, Lùyì Aìlí, 2 December 1897 – 27 December 1987) was a New Zealand-born writer and political activist. A member of the Chinese Communist Party, he dedicated 60 years of his life to the cause an ...

Norway

Henry Henne Henry Henne (21 October 1918 – 29 June 2002) was a Norwegian linguist. Henne was born in Bergen, and grew up in Solheimsviken, as a son of Halvar Henne (1894–1965) and Marie Bjørkly (1884–1959). He was married twice, the second time to an ...

(1918–2002)

Poland

Michał Boym Michał Piotr Boym, SJ ( zh, c=卜彌格, p= Bǔ Mígé;Transliterated also (using Wade-Giles) as ''Pu Che-yuen Mi-ko'' c. 1612 – 1659) was a Polish Jesuits, Jesuit missionary to China, scientist and explorer. He was an early Western traveller w ...

Portugal

Gaspar da Cruz Gaspar da Cruz ( 1520 – 5 February 1570; sometimes also known under an Hispanized version of his name, Gaspar de la Cruz) was a Portuguese Dominican friar born in Évora, who traveled to Asia and wrote one of the first detailed European accoun ...

(c.1520–1570), author of the first book on China in Western Europe *

Bento de Góis Bento de Góis (1562 – 11 April 1607) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and explorer. His name is commonly given in English as Bento de Goes"Bento de Goes", in: or Bento de Goës;Gallagher (trans.) (1953), pp. 499–500. in the past, it has ...

(c.1562–1607), historian from China

Philippines

* Alfredo Co

Qatar

* Ali bin Ghanem Al-hajiri

Russia

* Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin (1775–1853) * Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov (1817–1878) * Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov (1932–2013) *

Peter A. Boodberg Peter Alexis Boodberg (born Pyotr Alekseyevich von Budberg; 8 April 1903 – 29 June 1972) was a Russian-American scholar, linguist, and sinologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley for 40 years. Boodberg was influential in ...

(1903–1972) * Julian Shchutsky (1897–1938) *

Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev (, , in Saint Petersburg – May 12, 1951, in Leningrad (''ibidem'')) was an eminent Soviet sinologist and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1902 he graduated from the Saint Petersburg University and bec ...

(1881–1951) * Nikolai Iosifovich Konrad (1891–1970) *

Nikolai Fedorenko Nikolai Trofimovich Fedorenko (; – October 2, 2000) was a Soviet philologist, orientalist, statesman, public figure, professor (1953), and corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1958). Biography Nikolai Fedorenko graduate ...

(1912–2000) *

Vyacheslav Rybakov Vyacheslav Rybakov (; born January 1954 in Leningrad), is a Russian science fiction author and an orientalist, interested in the medieval bureaucracy of China. He is a frequent collaborator with science fiction director Konstantin Lopushansky. S ...

(born 1954)

Singapore

Wang Gungwu Wang Gungwu ( zh, t=王賡武, s=王赓武, p=Wáng Gēngwǔ, labels=yes; born 1930), also written Wang Gung Wu, is a Chinese Australian historian, sinologist, and writer specialising in the history of China and Southeast Asia. He has studie ...

Slovenia

* Jana S. Rošker * Mitja Saje

Spain

Miguel de Benavides Miguel de Benavides y Añoza, O.P. ( – July 26, 1605) was a Spanish Catholic prelate and sinologist who served as the third Archbishop of Manila. He previously served as the first Bishop of Nueva Segovia and was the founder of the Unive ...

(c. 1552–1605), then based in Spanish Colonial Philippines. (3rd

Archbishop of Manila The Archdiocese of Manila (; ; ) is the archdiocese of the Latin Church, Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, Catholic Church in Metro Manila, Catholic Church in the Philippines, Philippines, encompassing the cities of Manila, ...

and founder of

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) * Juan Cobo () (c. 1546–1592), then based in Spanish Colonial Philippines. * Carmelo Elorduy (1901–1989) *

Juan González de Mendoza Juan González de Mendoza, O.S.A. (1545 – 14 February 1618) was a Spanish bishop, explorer, sinologist, and writer. He was the author of one of the earliest Western histories of China. Published by him in 1585, ''Historia de las cosas más ...

(c. 1540–1617), compiler of one of the first European books about China

Sweden

Göran Malmqvist Nils Göran David Malmqvist (6 June 1924 – 17 October 2019) was a Swedish linguist, literary historian, sinologist and translator. He was also a member of the Swedish Academy between 1985 and 2019. Biography Göran Malmqvist was born on 6 Ju ...

() *

Johan Gunnar Andersson Johan Gunnar Andersson (3 July 1874 – 29 October 1960)"Andersson, Johan Gunnar" in '' The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 385. was a Swedish archaeologist, geomorphologist, ...

Bernhard Karlgren Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren (; 15 October 1889 – 20 October 1978) was a Swedish sinologist and linguist who pioneered the study of Chinese historical phonology using modern comparative methods. In the early 20th century, Karlgren conduct ...

() (1889–1978)

Switzerland

Jean François Billeter Jean François Billeter Chinese name : 毕来德 / 畢來德 Bì Láidé, born 1939 in Basel, Switzerland, is a Swiss sinologist and honorary professor of the University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') i ...

* Léopold de Saussure (1866–1925)

Thailand

Theraphan Luangthongkum Professor Theraphan Luangthongkum (; also cited variously as L-Thongkum, L. Thongkum or Thongkum in publications) is a Thai linguist, specializing in phonetics, linguistic fieldwork, lexicography and minority languages of Southeast Asia. She is ...

Turkey

'Ali Akbar Khata'i ʿAli Akbar Khata'i (modern ; ''fl.'' ca. 1500–1516) was an early 16th-century Persian traveler and writer. Although there is no certainty about his origin, it is known that by 1515 he came to (or returned to) Istanbul, where he published ''Ḵa� ...

, the author of an early book of China (completed in

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in 1516)

United Kingdom

* Edmund Backhouse (1873–1944) * Frederick W. Baller *

Robert Bickers Robert A. Bickers (born 1964) is a British historian of modern China and colonialism. He is currently a professor of history at the University of Bristol. Bickers is the author of six books and editor or co-editor of three more. Biography Born ...

* Derek Bryan (1910–2003) *

Craig Clunas Alistair Craig Clunas (born 1 December 1954) is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Oxford. As a historian of the art and history of China, Clunas has focused particularly on the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Life Clunas atten ...

Evangeline Edwards Evangeline Dora Edwards, known as Eve D. Edwards (13 August 1888 – 29 September 1957) taught Chinese language and Chinese literature at SOAS, University of London from 1921 to 1955, and was head of the Department of the Far East from 1937 to 1 ...

(1888–1957) *

Mark Elvin John Mark Dutton Elvin (18 August 1938 – 6 December 2023) was an Australian academic. A professor emeritus of Chinese history at Australian National University, he specialised in the late imperial period. He was also emeritus fellow of St A ...

* Bernhard Fuehrer *

Herbert Giles Herbert Allen Giles (; 8 December 184513 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge for 35 years. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British dip ...

(1845–1935) *

Lionel Giles Lionel Giles CBE (29 December 1875 – 22 January 1958) was a British sinologist, writer, and philosopher. Lionel Giles served as assistant curator at the British Museum and Keeper of the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books. He ...

(1875–1958) * A.C. Graham (1919–1991) * Henrietta Harrison (born 1967) * David Hawkes (1923–2009) *

Michel Hockx Michel Hockx (born 1964) is a Dutch sinologist currently serving as professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and founding Director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of ...

Reginald Johnston Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston ( zh, s=庄士敦爵士, t=莊士敦爵士, p=Zhuāngshìdūn juéshì, l=Sir Johnston; 13 October 1874 – 6 March 1938) was a Scottish diplomat and colonial official who served as the tutor and advisor to Puyi, ...

(1874–1938) * Gregory B. Lee *

James Legge James Legge (; 20 December 181529 November 1897) was a Scottish linguist, missionary, sinologist, and translator who was best known as an early translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. Legge served as a representative of the Lond ...

(1815–1897) *

Michael Loewe Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe (2 November 1922 – 1 January 2025) was a British historian, Sinologist, and writer who authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Classical Chinese as well as the history of ancien ...

Roderick MacFarquhar Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar (2 December 1930 – 10 February 2019) was a British sinologist, politician, and journalist. MacFarquhar was founding editor of '' China Quarterly'' in 1959. He served as a Member of Parliament in the 1970s, then ...

* David L. McMullen *

Oliver J. Moore Oliver Moore is a British Sinologist, and the first Chair in Chinese at Groningen University. Career Moore was educated at Bryanston School, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of Cambridge, and Fudan University in Shangha ...

Joseph Needham Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initia ...

(1900–1995) *

Jessica Rawson Dame Jessica Mary Rawson, (born 20 January 1943) is an English art historian, curator and sinologist, specialising in Chinese art. She is also an academic administrator. After many years at the British Museum, she was Warden (head) of Merton C ...

(born 1943) *

William Edward Soothill William Edward Soothill, (1861 – 1935) was a Methodist missionary to China who later became Shaw Professor of Chinese, Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford, and a leading British sinologist. Life Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire ...

(1861–1935) * Michael Sullivan (born 1916) * James Summers (1828–1891) * Tian Yuan Tan *

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(1931–2007) *

Denis C. Twitchett Denis Crispin Twitchett (23 September 192524 February 2006) was a British Sinologist and historian, and is well known as one of the co-editors of ''The Cambridge History of China''. Biography Denis Twitchett was born on 23 September 1925 in Lond ...

(1925–2006) *

Thomas Francis Wade Sir Thomas Francis Wade, (25 August 181831July 1895) was a British diplomat and sinologist who produced an early Chinese textbook in English, in 1867, that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization system for ...

(1818–1895) *

Andrew West Andrew or Andy West may refer to: * Andrew West (linguist) (born 1960), English linguist * Andrew West (pianist) (born 1979), English pianist * Andrew Fleming West (1853–1943), American classicist and academic administrator * Andrew J. West ...

(born 1960) *

Arthur Waley Arthur David Waley (born Arthur David Schloss, 19 August 188927 June 1966) was an English orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry. Among his honours were ...

(1889–1966) *

Helen Wang Helen Kay Wang (; ; born 1965) is an English sinologist and translator. She works as curator of East Asian Money at the British Museum in London. She has also published a number of literary translations from Chinese, including an award-winning t ...

Susan Whitfield Susan Whitfield (born 1960) is a British scholar, currently Professor in Silk Road Studies at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC), University of East Anglia. She previously worked at the British Library in ...

Endymion Wilkinson Endymion Porter Wilkinson (born 15 May 1941) is a British sinology, sinologist and diplomat who served as the European Union Ambassador to China and Mongolia from 1994 to 2001. He is particularly noted for ''Chinese History: A New Manual'', the ...

(born 1941) *

Frances Wood Frances Wood (; born 1948) is an English librarian, sinologue and historian known for her writings on Chinese history, including Marco Polo, life in the Chinese treaty ports, and the First Emperor of China. Biography Wood was born in Londo ...

Edward Harper Parker Edward Harper Parker (3July 18491926) was an English barrister and sinologist who wrote a number of books on the First and Second Opium Wars and other Chinese topics. On his return to England he ended his career as a university professor. Biogra ...

(1849–1926)

United States

* William Alford *

Sarah Allan Sarah Allan (; born 1945) is an American paleographer and scholar of ancient China. She was a Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College ...

* Robert Ashmore *

Wm. Theodore de Bary William Theodore de Bary ( zh, c=狄培理, p=Dí Péilǐ; August 9, 1919 – July 14, 2017) was an American Sinologist and scholar of East Asian philosophy who was a professor and administrator at Columbia University for nearly 70 years. De Bar ...

Derk Bodde Derk Bodde (March 9, 1909November 3, 2003) was an American sinologist and historian of China known for his pioneering work on the history of the Chinese legal system. Bodde received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1930. He ...

(1909–2003) * James Cahill, art historian *

Wing-tsit Chan Wing-tsit Chan (; 18 August 1901 – 12 August 1994) was a Chinese scholar and professor best known for his studies of Chinese philosophy and his translations of Chinese philosophical texts. Chan was born in China in 1901 and went to the United St ...

(1901–1994) *

Kang-i Sun Chang Kang-i Sun Chang (born Sun K'ang-i, ; 21 February 1944) is a Taiwanese-American sinologist. She is a scholar of classical Chinese literature. She is the inaugural Malcolm G. Chace Professor, and former chair of the Department of East Asian Langu ...

* Kwang-chih Chang * Jonathan Chaves *

Anthony E. Clark Anthony Eugene Clark (born 12 March 1967) is an American Sinologist, historian, and writer who has authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Sino-Western, Sino-Missionary, and ancient Chinese history. He is the ...

* Jerome Cohen * Herlee G. Creel (1905–1994) *

Pamela Kyle Crossley Pamela Kyle Crossley (born 18 November 1955) is an American historian of modern China, northern Asia, and global history and is the Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History, Dartmouth College. She is a founding appointment of the Dartmou ...

John DeFrancis John DeFrancis (August 31, 1911January 2, 2009) was an American linguist, sinologist, author of Chinese language textbooks, lexicographer of Chinese dictionaries, and professor emeritus of Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa ...

(1911–2009) * Edward L. Dreyer (1940–2007) *

Prasenjit Duara Prasenjit Duara ( ), originally from Assam, India, a historian of China, is Oscar Tang Family Distinguished Professor, Department of History, Duke University, after being the Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore, ...

* Homer H. Dubs * Mark Elliott *

* Joseph Esherick *

John K. Fairbank John King Fairbank (May 24, 1907September 14, 1991) was an American historian of China and United States–China relations. He taught at Harvard University from 1936 until his retirement in 1977. He is credited with building the field of China s ...

(1907–1991) *

Courtenay Hughes Fenn Courtenay Hughes Fenn, or C. H. Fenn, (April 11, 1866 – 1953) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China, and compiler of '' The Five Thousand Dictionary'', a widely used basic Chinese-English dictionary that has gone through numerous repri ...

* Henry Courtenay Fenn * Joshua Fogel *

Gail Hershatter Gail Hershatter is an American historian of Modern China who holds the Distinguished Professor of History chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She previously taught in the history department at Williams College. She graduated from H ...

David Hinton David Hinton is an American poet and translator who specializes in Chinese literature and poetry. Life He studied Chinese at Cornell University, and in Taiwan. He lives in Calais, Vermont, East Calais, Vermont. Awards * 1997 Academy of American ...

Dale Hoiberg Dale Hollis Hoiberg is a sinologist and was the editor-in-chief of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' from 1997 to 2015. He holds a PhD degree in Chinese literature The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, and begins with ...

* Cho-yun Hsu *

Immanuel C.Y. Hsu Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsu (, 1923 – October 24, 2005) was a sinologist, a scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history, and a professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Biography Born in Shanghai i ...

(1923–2005) *

Ray Huang Ray Huang (; 25 June 19188 January 2000) was a Chinese-American historian and philosopher who was an officer in the National Revolutionary Army and fought in the Burma Campaign. In 1964, Huang earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Mich ...

(Huang Renyu) (1918–2000) * Philip C. C. Huang *

William Hung William Hing Cheung Hung (; born November 10, 1982) is a Hong Kong-born American motivational speaker and former singer who gained fame in 2004 as a result of his unsuccessful audition singing Ricky Martin's hit song "She Bangs" on the thir ...

(Hong Ye) *

Charles Hucker Charles Oscar Hucker (; June 21, 1919 – November 18, 1994) was an American historian and Sinologist who was a professor of Chinese language and history at the University of Michigan. He was regarded as one of the foremost historians of Ming dy ...

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(1881–1970) *

David Keightley David Noel Keightley (October 25, 1932 – February 23, 2017) was an American sinologist. He was a professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a published author covering the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the ...

* George A. Kennedy * David R. Knechtges *

Owen Lattimore Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 – May 31, 1989) was an American Orientalist and writer. He was an influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia. Although he never earned a college degree, in the 1930s he was editor of '' Pac ...

Mark Edward Lewis Mark Edward Lewis (; born September 25, 1954) is an American sinologist and historian of ancient China. Life and career Lewis was born on September 25, 1954. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and studied Chine ...

* Li Feng *

Paul Linebarger Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966), known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author of science fiction. He was an officer in the US Army, a noted scholar of East Asia, and an expert in psycholo ...

* E. Perry Link *

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Susan L. Mann Susan Louise Mann (born 1943) is an American historian of China best known for her work on the Qing dynasty and the role of women and gender in Chinese history. She was professor of history at University of California, Davis from 1989 until her ...

* Emily Martin * Thomas Metzger *

Frederick W. Mote Frederick Wade "Fritz" Mote (June 2, 1922 – February 10, 2005) was an American sinologist and a professor of history at Princeton University for nearly 50 years. His research and teaching interests focused on China during the Yuan and Mi ...

* Jerry Norman (1936–2012) *

David Nivison David Shepherd Nivison (January 17, 1923 – October 16, 2014) was an American sinologist known for his publications on late imperial and ancient Chinese history, philology, and philosophy, and his 40 years as a professor at Stanford Univer ...

* Stephen Owen * Peter C. Perdue *

Elizabeth J. Perry Elizabeth J. Perry, FBA (; born 9 September 1948) is an American political scientist specialized in Chinese politics and history. She currently is the Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University. She is a fellow of the American ...

Andrew H. Plaks Andrew Henry Plaks (; born 1945) is an American sinologist who specializes in the study of the vernacular fiction of the Ming and Qing dynasties. From 1973 to 2007, he taught at Princeton University, becoming full professor in 1980. He moved to th ...

* Carlos Rojas * Edward H. Schafer *

Stuart R. Schram Stuart Reynolds Schram (February 27, 1924 – July 8, 2012) was an American physicist, political scientist and sinologist who specialised in the study of modern Chinese politics. He was particularly well known for his works on the life and thoug ...

Sidney Shapiro Sidney Shapiro (; December 23, 1915 – October 18, 2014) was an American-born Chinese actor, lawyer, translator, and writer who lived in China from 1947 to 2014. He lived in Beijing for more than 50 years and eventually became a member of the N ...

Edward L. Shaughnessy Edward Louis Shaughnessy (born July 29, 1952) is an American sinologist, scholar, and educator, known for his studies of early Chinese history, particularly the Zhou dynasty, and his studies of the ''Classic of Changes'' (''I Ching'' 易經). L ...

Nathan Sivin Nathan Sivin (11 May 1931 – 24 June 2022), also known as Xiwen (), was an American sinologist, historian, essayist, educator, and writer. He taught first at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then at the University of Pennsylvania until his r ...

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* Hugh Stimson (1931–2011) * Laurence Thompson *

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(T.H. Tsien) *

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(1937–2006) *

Joanna Waley-Cohen Eleanor Joanna Waley-Cohen (born 10 June 1952) is an English academic who is Provost for New York University Shanghai and Silver Professor of History at New York University, where she has taught Chinese history since 1992. As Provost, she serves ...

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Stephen H. West Stephen H. West, Ph.D. (Traditional Chinese: 奚如谷, pinyin: Xī Rúgǔ; born January 6, 1944) is a sinologist, philologist, and translator. West received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He formerly taught at University of Califor ...

* C. Martin Wilbur *

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(1896–1988) * R. Bin Wong * Timothy C. Wong *

Arthur F. Wright Arthur Frederick Wright (December 3, 1913 – August 11, 1976) was an American historian and sinologist. He was a professor of history at Yale University. He specialized in Chinese social and intellectual history of the pre-modern period.

(1913–1976) *

Mary C. Wright Mary Clabaugh Wright (born Mary Oliver Clabaugh; Chinese name Ruì Mǎlì; September 25, 1917 – June 18, 1970) was an American historian and sinologist who specialized in the study of late Qing dynasty and early twentieth century China. She w ...

(1917–1970) *

Yang Lien-sheng Yang Lien-sheng (; July 26, 1914November 16, 1990) who often wrote under the name L.S. Yang, was a Chinese-American sinologist and professor at Harvard University. He was the first full-time historian of China at Harvard and a prolific scholar sp ...

(1914–1990) *

Yu Ying-shih Yu Ying-shih (; 22 January 1930 – 1 August 2021) was a Chinese-born American historian, sinologist, and the Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was known for his mastery of sources for Chinese h ...

(1930–2021) * Ernest P. Young

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(born 1950)

Notes

References

* * Zurndorfer, Harriet,
A Brief History of Chinese Studies and Sinology
" in {{cite book , last = Zurndorfer , first = Harriet , year = 1999 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uu5zn7-ImJoC, title= China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works About China Past and Present] , publisher = Brill; reprinted, University of Hawai'i Press, location = Honolulu, isbn = 9004102787 Sinologists, List of sinologists

Sinologists Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilization ...