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[edit] List of Sinologists

Planning to move "famous recognized sinologists" to new article "List of Sinologists". Any thoughtsIluvchineselit 03:23, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

>Sure, put them all on one page. It's too hard to divide them into a "famous" and "others" list. Separate pages for individual sinologists will tell how famous (or better, how good) they are. A Question: Are "Sinologists" "Hanxue jia"? That is, need they be non-Chinese? If not, then we need to add many names: Rao Zongyi, Yeh Chia-ying, Wang Li, He Peixiong, etc. I think a "sinologist" must be recent--since the Jesuits. If we included traditional Chinese scholars before that, there would be too many, and what they did is, I believe, not exactly "sinology." They were already inside the proverbial fishbowl. The Qing philologists (though after the Jesuits), for example, should have their own page. Shih-hua ("critical poetry talks") needs a separate page too. Etc. Also, postmodern scholars of China, as far as I can see, aren't really "sinologists"; that construct is something they aim to break down, and probably would reject the label anyway. So we should be cautious about adding some scholars to the list. Recent scholars of traditional China such as Owen, Schafer, Knechtges, Mair, JJY Liu, KIS Chang, Birrell, Boltz, Kroll, Idema, etc are indeed "sinologists."

Also needed is a section on French and German sinologists. See David Honey's book.

[edit] sinologists as experts on china

I took the liberty of removing the following sentence from the beginning: "In China, sinologists are sometimes, with admiration and affection, called "experts on China" (中國通)". Apart from the characters to me displaying as question marks, which i hope has to do with me not having chinese fonts enabled, the sentence appeared to me not informative, as sinologist and 'expert on china' are nearly synonyms. Jens Nielsen 14:32, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prodigy

Question for the author:

Sinologists -> U.S.: "Scott D. Gerner (1983-) 3 Kingdoms period specialist"

An awfully young specialist - where can I find more information on this prodigy? There's nothing available online.