Sinology
PersonsFree use has been made, in compiling these Sinological profiles, of standard print and on-line resources for the history of Sinology, to which we here render a blanket acknowledgement and express our comprehensive thanks. Specific sources are credited on individual pages. Details from all sources are offered in good faith; differences among them have been resolved with according to best judgement. Evaluations are personal. These profiles are meant, not necessarily as models for future Sinologists, but as a Sinological past of which present practitioners should be aware. For the larger context of that past, see Nations and Societies.
- Vasili Alexeev
- Étienne Balázs
- Derk Bodde
- Peter Boodberg
- Michael Boym
- Edouard Chavannes
- Chyen Mu
- August Conrady
- Herrlee G Creel
- Paul Demieville
- Homer Dubs
- J J L Duyvendak
- Wolfram Eberhard
- Eduard Erkes
- Alfred Forke
- Otto Franke
- Fu Sz-nyen
- Georg von der Gabelentz
- Herbert Giles
- L Carrington Goodrich
- Marcel Granet
- J J M de Groot
- Gu Jye-gang
- Robert H van Gulik
- Erich Haenisch
- Gustav Haloun
- Yves Hervouet
- J R Hightower
- Hsiao Kung-chuan
- Hu Shih
- Anthony Hulsewé
- William Hung
- Stanislas Julien
- Tom Kaasa
- Kaizuka Shigeki
- Bernhard Karlgren
- George Kennedy
- Albert Terrien de Lacouperie
- Lionello Lanciotti
- Berthold Laufer
- James Legge
- Lin Yutang
- Lyang Chi-chau
- Henri Maspero
- F W "Fritz" Mote
- Naitô Konan
- Joseph Needham
- Paul Pelliot
- August Pfizmeier
- Timoteus Pokora
- Jaroslav Prusek
- Erwin Reifler
- Arthur Rosthorn
- Bruno Schindler
- Gustaaf Schlegel
- Iulian Shchutskii
- Nancy Lee Swann
- Takigawa Kametarô
- Paul Thompson
- Tjan Tjoe Som
- Tsuda Sôkichi
- Tswei Shu
- Giuseppe Tucci
- Francis Verellen
- Wang Gwo-wei
- Arthur Waley
- Hellmut WIlhelm
- Richard Wilhelm
- Karl August Wittfogel
- Yoshikawa Kôjirô
- Erwin von Zach
We are grateful to those who have contributed information for the above profiles. We will be pleased to benefit from corrections, or to receive additional information or reminiscences from any source. We would like working Sinologists to regard these pages as a repository, where facts or memories in their possession can find a place in the collective memory of our science.
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