Concept
Sinology
Overview
Sinology, also referred to as China studies and Chinese studies, is the academic discipline of studying China, including Chinese culture, Chinese history, and the Chinese language. It is a subfield of East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on any topic relating to China. It focuses on the study of the Chinese civilization primarily through linguistics, history, culture, literature, philosophy, art, music, cinema, and science. Its origin "may be traced to the examination which Chinese scholars made of their own civilization."
The academic field of sinology often refers to Western scholarship. Until the 20th century, it was historically seen as equivalent to philology concerning the Chinese classics and other literature written in the Chinese language. Since then, the scope of sinology has expanded to include Chinese history and palaeography, among other subjects.
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About the same time, the emperor Camhi, perceiving his health to decay, and knowing, by experience, that the European mathematicians were much more learned in their art than those of his own nation, thought that the European physicians must also have more knowledge than those of Pekin, and therefore sent a message to the czar, by some ambassadors who were returning from China to Petersburg, requesting him to send…
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
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Scholasticism frequently has been used since the time of the revival of learning as a term of reproach. But all that it means is the method of The Schools, or of the School Men. In its essence, it is nothing but a highly effective systematization of the methods of teaching and learning which are appropriate to transmit an authoritative body of truths. Where literature rather than contemporary nature and society…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
States what Sinology is.
One was obliged then to cultivate French; but the language was neither noble nor regular. The syntax was left to caprice.
Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
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Philosophers who discussed Sinology
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- Heidelberg University
- Freiburg im Breisgau
- Washington, D.C.
- Frankfurt
- Dark Ages (historiography)
- Germany
- Greek language
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Ghent
- Geneva
- George Mason University
- Hong Kong
- Academic discipline
- Durham, North Carolina
- Jesuits
- Massachusetts
- Giambattista Vico
- Melbourne
- University of Hamburg
- London
- Leipzig
- University of Göttingen
- Lisbon
- Harvard University
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Consequentialism.