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."
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). Sinology has broadened in modern times to include Chinese history, epigraphy, and other subjects.
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 Zhongshu
Xia Nai
Yang Bojun
Gustav Haloun (1898–1951)
Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980)
Vera Halbík (born 1980)
Linnart Mäll
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, 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.
Marcel Granet (1884–1940) – one of the first to use sociological methods
Jean Escarra (1885–1955)
René Grousset (1885–1952)
Étienne Balázs (1905–1963)
Jacques Gernet (born 1921)
François Jullien (born 1951)
David Gosset (born 1970)
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.
Emil Krebs (1867–1930) – Polyglot
Wolfgang Kubin (born 1945)
Walter Liebenthal (1886–1982)
Erling von Mende (born 1940)
Christian Schwarz-Schilling (born 1930)
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.
Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky (born 1974)
Étienne Balázs (1905–1963)
Imre Galambos (born 1967)
Imre Hamar (born 1968)
László Ladány (1914–1990)
Lajos Magyar (1891–1940)
Zsolt Tokaji (born 1971)
Tan Chung
Yukteshwar Kumar
B R Deepak
Prabodh Chandra Bagchi
Ireland
Sean Hurley
Martino Martini (1614–1661)
Matteo Ricci (1552–1610)Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission.
Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607)Jesuit priest; one of the founding figures of the Jesuit Jesuit China Mission, co-author of the first Portuguese-Chinese dictionary, and can be described as the first European sinologist.
Giuseppe Tucci (1894–1984)
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)
Yury Zuev (1932–2006)
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
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
Rewi Alley
Henry Henne (1918–2002)
Poland
Michał Boym
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
Alfredo Co
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)
Wang Gungwu
Jana S. Rošker
Mitja Saje
Miguel de Benavides (c. 1552–1605)
Juan Cobo (Chinese: 高母羨; pinyin: Gāo Mǔxiàn) (c. 1546–1592).
Carmelo Elorduy (1901–1989)
Juan González de Mendoza (c. 1540–1617), compiler of one of the first European books about China
Göran Malmqvist (simplified Chinese: 马悅然; traditional Chinese: 馬悅然; pinyin: Mǎ Yuèrán)
Johan Gunnar Andersson
Bernhard Karlgren (simplified Chinese: 高本汉; traditional Chinese: 高本漢; pinyin: Gāo Běnhàn) (1889–1978)
Switzerland
Léopold de Saussure (1866–1925)
'Ali Akbar Khata'i, the author of an early book of China (completed in Istanbul in 1516)
Edmund Backhouse (1873–1944)
Frederick W. Baller
Derek Bryan (1910–2003)
Craig Clunas
Mark Elvin
Bernhard Fuehrer
Herbert Giles (1845–1935)
Lionel Giles (1875–1958)
A.C. Graham (1919–1991)
David Hawkes (1923–2009)
Michel Hockx
Reginald Johnston (1874–1938)
James Legge (1815–1897), a missionary, the first professor of Chinese language at Oxford University, and with Max Müller prepared the 50 volume Sacred Books of the East.
Michael Loewe
Roderick MacFarquhar
Joseph Needham (1900–1995)
Jessica Rawson (born 1943)
William Edward Soothill (1861–1935)
Michael Sullivan (born 1916)
Paul Thompson (1931–2007)
Denis C. Twitchett (1925–2006)
Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895)
Andrew West (born 1960)
Arthur Waley (1889–1966)
Susan Whitfield
Endymion Wilkinson (born 1941)
Frances Wood
William Alford
Robert Ashmore
Wm. Theodore de Bary
Timothy Brook
Derk Bodde (1909–2003)
James Cahill, art historian
Wing-tsit Chan (1901–1994)
Kang-i Sun Chang
Kwang-chih Chang
Jerome Cohen
Herlee G. Creel (1905–1994)
Pamela Kyle Crossley
John DeFrancis (1911–2009)
Prasenjit Duara
Homer H. Dubs
Mark Elliott
Mark Elvin
Joseph Esherick
John K. Fairbank (1907–1991)
Courtenay Hughes Fenn
Henry Courtenay Fenn
Gail Hershatter
David Hinton
Dale Hoiberg
Cho-yun Hsu
Immanuel C.Y. Hsu (1923–2005)
Ray Huang (Huang Renyu) (1918–2000)
William Hung (Hong Ye)
Charles Hucker
David Keightley
George A. Kennedy
David R. Knechtges
Owen Lattimore
Mark Edward Lewis
Li Feng
Paul Linebarger
E. Perry Link
Victor Mair
Susan Mann
Emily Martin
Thomas Metzger
Frederick W. Mote
Jerry Norman (1936–2012)
David Nivison
Peter C. Perdue
Elizabeth J. Perry
Andrew H. Plaks
Edward H. Schafer
Stuart R. Schram
Sidney Shapiro
Edward L. Shaughnessy
Nathan Sivin
Jonathan Spence
Richard B. Stamps
Hugh Stimson (1931–2011)
Laurence Thompson
Tsien Tsuen-hsuin (T.H. Tsien)
Tu Wei-ming
Frederic Wakeman (1937–2006)
Joanna Waley-Cohen
Burton Watson
Stephen H. West
C. Martin Wilbur
Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988)
R. Bin Wong
Timothy C. Wong
Arthur F. Wright (1913–1976)
Mary C. Wright (1917–1970)
Yang Lien-sheng(1914-1990)
Yu Ying-shih (born 1930)
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