List of Sinologists
Encyclopedia
Australia
- Rafe de CrespignyRafe de CrespignyDr Rafe de Crespigny is a retired Adjunct Professor with the China and Korea Centre, Australian National University in Canberra, Australia...
(born 1936) - Robert Henry MathewsRobert Henry MathewsRobert Henry Mathews was an Australian missionary and Sinologist, best known for his 1931 Chinese-English Dictionary . Revised American edition . Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674123502.-References:...
(1877–1970) - Jonathan UngerJonathan UngerProfessor Jonathan Unger is a journalist and an expert on China. His major works include The Transformation of Rural China and The Nature of Chinese Politics from Mao to Jiang . Unger is currently conducting research on Chinese state-owned factories...
Belgium
- Simon Leys
- Roel SterckxRoel SterckxRoel Sterckx is the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College. Sterckx was a pupil at Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege Mol and was educated at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, National Taiwan University,...
(born 1969) - Antoine ThomasAntoine ThomasAntoine Thomas was a Belgian Jesuit priest, missionary and astronomer in China.- Early life :Born in Namur in 1644, he joined the Society of Jesus in 1660 and first taught in the schools of Armentières, Huy and Tournai...
- Ferdinand VerbiestFerdinand VerbiestFather Ferdinand Verbiest was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Pittem near Tielt in Flanders, later part of the modern state of Belgium. He is known as Nan Huairen in Chinese...
Britain
- Frederick W. BallerFrederick W. BallerFrederick William Baller was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, Chinese linguist, translator, educator and sinologist.- Missionary career:...
- Timothy Barrett
- Derek Bryan (1910–2003)
- Craig ClunasCraig ClunasCraig Clunas is Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford. As a historian of the art and history of China, Professor Clunas has focussed particularly on the Ming Dynasty .-Life:...
- Mark ElvinMark ElvinMark Elvin is a professor emeritus of Chinese history at Australian National University, specializing in the late imperial period.He is famous for his high level equilibrium trap theory to explain why an industrial revolution happened in Europe but not in China, despite the fact that the state of...
- Bernhard FuehrerBernhard FuehrerBernhard Fuehrer is Professor of Classical Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS University of London.-References:...
- Herbert GilesHerbert GilesHerbert Allen Giles was a British diplomat and sinologist, educated at Charterhouse. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system earlier established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system...
(1845–1935) - Lionel GilesLionel GilesLionel Giles was a Victorian scholar, translator and the son of British diplomat and sinologist, Herbert Giles. Lionel Giles served as assistant curator at the British Museum and Keeper of the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books...
(1875–1958) - A.C. Graham (1919–1991)
- David HawkesDavid Hawkes (scholar)David Hawkes was a British Sinologist. He studied Mandarin Chinese and Japanese at Oxford University between 1945 and 1947 and was a research student at the National Peking University from 1948 to 1951. During the later years of World War II he taught Japanese to military cryptolinguists and...
(1923–2009) - Michel HockxMichel HockxMichel Hockx is a Professor of Chinese at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the author of several books, mainly focusing on modern Chinese poetry and literature....
- Reginald JohnstonReginald JohnstonSir Reginald Fleming Johnston, KCMG, CBE, was a Scottish academic, diplomat and tutor to Puyi, the last emperor of China, and later appointed as the last Commissioner of Weihaiwei.-Early:...
(1874–1938) - James LeggeJames LeggeJames Legge was a noted Scottish sinologist, a Scottish Congregationalist, representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong , and first professor of Chinese at Oxford University...
(1815–1897) - Michael LoeweMichael LoeweMichael Loewe , also known as M. A. N. Loewe, is a British academic and renowned sinologist who has authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Classical Chinese and ancient Chinese history....
- Roderick MacFarquharRoderick MacFarquharRoderick Lemonde MacFarquhar is a Harvard University professor and China specialist, British politician, newspaper and television journalist and academic orientalist...
- Joseph NeedhamJoseph NeedhamNoel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham, CH, FRS, FBA , also known as Li Yuese , was a British scientist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, and as a fellow of the British...
(1900–1995) - Jessica RawsonJessica RawsonJessica Rawson, DBE, FBA is an English art historian, curator and academic administrator, specializing in Chinese art. After many years at the British Museum, she was Warden of Merton College, Oxford, from 1994 until her retirement in 2010...
(born 1943) - William Edward SoothillWilliam Edward SoothillWilliam Edward Soothill was a Methodist missionary to China who later became Professor of Chinese at Oxford University and a leading British sinologist.Born in Halifax, Yorkshire in January 1861, Soothill matriculated at London University...
(1861 – 1935) - Michael SullivanMichael Sullivan (art historian)Michael Sullivan is a British art historian and one of the major Western pioneers in the field of modern Chinese art history and criticism.Sullivan is a graduate of Rugby School and graduated from Cambridge in architecture in 1939...
(born 1916) - Paul ThompsonPaul Thompson (sinologist)Paul Mulligan Thompson was a British sinologist and pioneer in the field of Chinese computer applications.-Biography:...
(1931–2007) - Denis C. TwitchettDenis C. TwitchettDenis Crispin Twitchett was a British Sinologist, specializing in Chinese history, famous for compiling The Cambridge History of China.-Biography:...
(1925–2006) - Thomas Francis WadeThomas Francis WadeSir Thomas Francis Wade, GCMG, KCB , was a British diplomat and Sinologist who produced a syllabary in 1859 that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892...
(1818–1895) - Andrew WestAndrew WestAndrew Christopher West is an English Sinologist. He initially devoted himself to studying Chinese novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties...
(born 1960) - Arthur WaleyArthur WaleyArthur David Waley CH, CBE was an English orientalist and sinologist.-Life:Waley was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, as Arthur David Schloss, son of the economist David Frederick Schloss...
(1889–1966) - Susan WhitfieldSusan WhitfieldSusan Whitfield is an English historian and librarian who works at the British Library in London, England. She obtained a PhD in historiography from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and now specialises in the social and intellectual history of the Tang Dynasty, and the history...
- Frances WoodFrances WoodFrances Wood is an English historian known for her writings on Chinese history, including Marco Polo, life in the Chinese treaty ports, and the First Emperor of China...
Canada
- Timothy BrookTimothy Brook (historian)Timothy James Brook , who writes as Timothy Brook and who has had many academic works published, is a distinguished historian specializing in the study of China...
- Jerome Ch'enJerome Ch'enJerome Ch'en FRSC in Chengdu, Sichuan, China) is a noted Chinese historian. He was a Chinese history professor at the York University in Toronto, Canada from 1971 to 1987. Jerome Ch'en was the director of the University of Toronto/York University Joint Centre of Asia Pacific Studies from 1983 to...
(born 1919) - Richard KingRichard KingRichard King may refer to:*Richard King , founder of the King Ranch in South Texas*Sir Richard King, 1st Baronet , British admiral, Commodore Governor for Newfoundland and Labrador...
- Edwin G. PulleyblankEdwin G. PulleyblankEdwin George Pulleyblank FRSC is a sinologist and professor emeritus of the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia...
- Michael SzonyiMichael SzonyiMichael A. Szonyi is Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. His research focuses on the local history of southeast China, especially in the Ming dynasty, the history of Chinese popular religion, and Overseas Chinese history. He is currently studying the social history of the Ming...
Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macau
- Huang XianfanHuang XianfanHuang Xianfan was a famous Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator.A scholar with both ancient and modern knowledge, his work Brief History of Zhuang Nationality is the first systematic research on the history of Zhuang nationality in China...
- Rao ZongyiRao ZongyiJao Tsung-I is a Chinese scholar, poet, calligrapher and painter. A versatile scholar, he contributes to every field of humanities, including archaeology, literature, philology, musicology and history. Currently he lives in Hong Kong. He has two daughters....
- Wang LiWang LiWang Li , or Wang Liaoyi , was a Chinese linguist.Born into a poor but educated family in Bobai , Yulin, Guangxi, he was largely self-taught before entering the Tsinghua University in 1927. There he was taught by Yuen Ren Chao and Liang Qichao, among others. Encouraged by Chao, he went to Paris to...
- Kwang-chih ChangKwang-chih ChangKwang-chih Chang , aka K.C. Chang, was a Chinese/Taiwanese archaeologist and sinologist. He was a professor of archaeology at Harvard University, a Vice-President of the Academia Sinica and a curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He helped to bring modern, western methods of...
- Qian Mu
- C.T. Hsia
- Yuen Ren ChaoYuen Ren ChaoChao Yuen Ren was a Chinese American linguist and amateur composer. He made important contributions to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar....
France
- Jean-Baptiste Du HaldeJean-Baptiste Du HaldeJean-Baptiste Du Halde was a French Jesuit historian specializing in China. Although he had not gone to China, he collected seventeen Jesuit missionaries' reports and provided encyclopedic survey on Chinese history, culture and society....
(1674–1743) - Arcade Huang (1679–1717)
- Étienne FourmontÉtienne FourmontÉtienne Fourmont was a French orientalist.Born at Herblay near Argenteuil, he studied at the Collège Mazarin in Paris and afterwards in the Collège Montaigu where his attention was attracted to Oriental languages....
(1683–1745) - Jean Denis AttiretJean Denis AttiretJean Denis Attiret was a French Jesuit painter and missionary to China.Jean Denis Attiret studied art in Rome and made himself a name as a portrait painter. While a Jesuit novice, he did paintings in the Cathedral of Avignon and the Sodality Chapel....
(1702–1768) - Jean Joseph Marie AmiotJean Joseph Marie AmiotJean Joseph Marie Amiot was a FrenchJesuit missionary.-Life:Joseph Marie Amiot was born at Toulon. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to China. He soon won the confidence of the Qianlong Emperor and spent the remainder of his life at Beijing...
(1718–1793) - Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788–1832)
- Stanislas JulienStanislas JulienStanislas Aignan Julien was a French sinologist.-Biography:Born at Orléans, he studied the classics at the Collège de France, and in 1821 was appointed assistant professor of Greek. In the same year he published an edition of The Rape of Helen of Coluthus, with versions in French, Latin, English,...
(1797–1873) - Séraphin CouvreurSéraphin CouvreurSéraphin Couvreur was a French Jesuit missionary to China, sinologist and creator of the EFEO Chinese transcription in 1902...
(1835–1919) - Édouard ChavannesÉdouard ChavannesÉdouard Chavannes was a French sinologist.He is best known for his translations from Sima Qian's Shiji , sections of the Hou Hanshu relating to the 'Western Regions', the Weilüe, his studies of Han dynasty stone carvings Édouard Chavannes (Chinese: ) (1865–1918) was a French sinologist.He is best...
(1865–1918) - Paul PelliotPaul PelliotPaul Pelliot was a French sinologist and explorer of Central Asia. Initially intending to enter the foreign service, Pelliot took up the study of Chinese and became a pupil of Sylvain Lévi and Édouard Chavannes....
(1878–1945) - Henri MasperoHenri MasperoHenri Maspero was a French sinologist, today particularly remembered for his pioneering works on Taoism.-Biography:...
(1883–1945) - Marcel GranetMarcel GranetMarcel Granet 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 of China...
(1884–1940) - Jean EscarraJean EscarraJean Escarra , French legal scholar, consultant of the Chinese government and professor at the Faculté de Droit de Paris....
(1885–1955) - René GroussetRené GroussetRené Grousset was a French historian, curator of both the Cernuschi and Guimet Museums in Paris, and a member of the prestigious Académie française...
(1885–1952) - Jacques GernetJacques GernetProfessor Jacques Gernet is an eminent French sinologist of the second half of the 20th century. His best-known work is The Chinese Civilization, a 900 page summary of Chinese history and civilization which has been translated into many languages.Gernet obtained a degree in classics at Algiers in...
(born 1921) - François JullienFrançois JullienFrançois Jullien is a French Sinologist. Jullien was President of the French Association for Chinese Studies , director of the East Asian Department of the University of Paris VII and President of the Collège international de philosophie...
(born 1951) - Étienne BalázsÉtienne BalázsEtienne Balazs, Étienne Balazs, Balázs István was a Hungary-born sinologist.-Literary works:* Le traité économique du "Soueichou", 1953* Le traité juridique du "Soueichou", 1954...
Germany
- Wolfgang BauerWolfgang BauerWolfgang Bauer was an Austrian writer best known as a playwright who, particularly in his younger days, was regarded as an enfant terrible by the Austrian cultural establishment.-Life and career:...
- Hans Georg Conon von der GabelentzHans Georg Conon von der GabelentzHans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz was a German general linguist and sinologist. His Chinesische Grammatik , according to a critic, "remains until today recognized as probably the finest overall grammatical survey of the Classical Chinese language to date." Gabelentz was born in Poschwitz, near...
(1807–1874) - Wolfgang KubinWolfgang KubinWolfgang Kubin is a German sinologist and works at the University of Bonn's Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies.In November 2006, he attracted a great deal of attention due to an interview he gave with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle regarding a few prominent examples of recent contemporary...
- Walter LiebenthalWalter LiebenthalWalter Liebenthal, 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...
(1886–1982) - Erling von MendeErling von MendeErling von Mende has been professor of Sinology at the FU Berlin since 1983. He is specialised in the social and economic history of the early Song dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty.-Biography:...
Germany - Christian Schwarz-SchillingChristian Schwarz-SchillingDr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling , is a German politician and entrepreneur. He is the son of the composer Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling and is married to the author Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling with whom he has two children...
- Richard WilhelmRichard WilhelmRichard Wilhelm was a German sinologist, as well as theologian and missionary. He is best remembered for his translations of philosophical works from Chinese into German that in turn have been translated into other major languages of the world, including English...
(1873–1930)
Italy
- Martino MartiniMartino MartiniMartino Martini was an Italian Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian, mainly working on ancient Imperial China.-Early years:Martini was born in Trento, in the Bishopric of Trent...
(1614–1661) - Matteo RicciMatteo RicciMatteo Ricci, SJ was an Italian Jesuit priest, and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission, as it existed in the 17th-18th centuries. His current title is Servant of God....
(1552–1610) - Giuseppe TucciGiuseppe TucciGiuseppe Tucci was an Italian scholar of oriental cultures, specialising in Tibet and history of Buddhism. During its zenith, Tucci was a supporter of Italian Fascism, and he used idealized portrayals of Asian traditions to support Italian ideological campaigns...
(1894–1984)
Japan
- Aoki Masaru 靑木正兒 (1887–1964)
- Morohashi TetsujiMorohashi Tetsujiwas 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, the most comprehensive dictionary of Kanji....
諸橋轍次 (1883–1982) - Naitō KonanNaito TorajiroNaitō Torajirō , commonly known as Naitō Konan , was a Japanese historian and Sinologist. He was the founder of the Kyoto School of historiography, and along with Shiratori Kurakichi , was one of the leading Japanese historians of East Asia in the early twentieth century...
內藤虎次郎 (1866–1934) - Suzuki Daisetsu 鈴木大拙 (1870–1966)
- Takakusu JunjirōTakakusu Junjiro, who often published as J. Takakusu, was a Japanese academic, an advocate for expanding higher education opportunities, and an internationally known Buddhist scholar. He was an active Esperantist.-Early life:...
高楠順次郎 (1866–1945) - Takeuchi YoshimiTakeuchi Yoshimiwas 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 ignited a significant reaction in the world of Japanese thought during and after the Pacific War...
竹內好 (1910–1977) - Charles MullerCharles MullerA. Charles Muller is an academic specializing in Korean Buddhism and East Asian Yogacara, having published numerous books and articles on these topics. He is a resident of Japan, currently teaching at the University of Tokyo...
Russia
- Nikita Yakovlevich BichurinNikita Yakovlevich BichurinNikita Yakovlevich Bichurin , better known under his monastic name Hyacinth, or Iakinf , was one of the founding fathers of Sinology...
(1775–1853) - Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov (1817–1878)
- Evgenij Ivanovich KychanovEvgenij Ivanovich KychanovEvgenij Ivanovich Kychanov is a Soviet and Russian orientalist, an expert on the Tangut people and their mediaeval Xi Xia Empire. He currently serves as the director of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Science in Saint Petersburg - the institution that until 2007 was...
- Peter A. BoodbergPeter A. BoodbergPeter Alexis Boodberg in American spelling, was an American sinologist of Russian origin....
(1903–1972)
Spain
- Miguel de BenavidesMiguel de BenavidesMiguel de Benavides y Añoza was a Spanish clergyman and sinologist, the third Archbishop of Manila, and founder of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.-Biography:...
(c. 1552–1605) - Juan CoboJuan CoboJuan Cobo was Spanish dominican, diplomat, astronomer and sinologist.Cobo was born in Alcázar de San Juan. After becoming a priest of the Dominican order, he traveled to Mexico in 1586 and later to Manila in 1588. He was assigned by King Philip II to bring Christianity to China along with Miguel...
(c. 1546–1592). - Carmelo ElorduyCarmelo ElorduyCarmelo Elorduy, S.J. was a Spanish Sinologist. Elorduy was born in Mungia and his first trip to China was in 1926, where he worked at the Jesuit mission located in Wuhu City, Anhui. He returned to Spain in 1932 to finish his degree in Theology and Philosophy and to become a priest with the...
(1901–1989)
Sweden
- Göran MalmqvistGöran MalmqvistProfessor Nils Göran David Malmqvist is a Swedish linguist, member of the Swedish Academy , literary historian, sinologist and translator.-Biography:...
- Johan Gunnar AnderssonJohan Gunnar AnderssonJohan Gunnar Andersson , Swedish archaeologist, paleontologist and geologist, closely associated with the beginnings of Chinese archaeology in the 1920s...
- Bernhard KarlgrenBernhard KarlgrenKlas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren was a Swedish sinologist and linguist who pioneered the study of Chinese historical phonology using modern comparative methods...
(1889–1978)
U.S.
- William AlfordWilliam AlfordWilliam Alford may refer to:* William VanMeter Alford, Jr. admiral in the U.S. Navy* William P. Alford , U.S. legal scholar* W. R. Alford , American mathematician...
- Robert Ashmore
- Wm. Theodore de BaryWm. Theodore de BaryWilliam Theodore de Bary is an East Asian studies expert at Columbia University, with the title John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost Emeritus....
- Timothy Brook
- Derk BoddeDerk BoddeDerk Bodde was a prominent 20th century American Sinologist and historian of China. He authored pioneering work in the history of the Chinese legal system....
(1909–2003) - Wing-tsit ChanWing-tsit ChanProfessor Wing-tsit Chan was one of the world's leading scholars of Chinese philosophy and religion, active in the United States....
(1901–1994) - Jerome Cohen
- James Cole
- Herlee G. Creel (1905–1994)
- Pamela Kyle CrossleyPamela Kyle CrossleyPamela Kyle Crossley is an historian of modern China, northern Asia, and global history. She is author of The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800: An Interpretive History , as well as influential studies of the Qing dynasty and leading textbooks in global history...
- John DeFrancisJohn DeFrancisJohn DeFrancis was an American linguist, sinologist, author of Chinese language textbooks, lexicographer of Chinese dictionaries, and Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa....
(1911–2009) - Prasenjit DuaraPrasenjit DuaraPrasenjit Duara , originally from Assam, India, an historian of China, is the Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore where he is also Director of Asian Research Institute and Research in Humanities and Social Sciences...
- Homer H. DubsHomer H. DubsHomer Hasenpflug Dubs was a pioneering and prolific American Sinologist and polymath. Though best known for his masterful translation of sections of Ban Gu's Han shu , he published on a wide range of topics in ancient Chinese history, astronomy and philosophy...
- Mark ElliottMark ElliottMark Elliott is an English travel writer best known for books on Azerbaijan, and for unusual map-based route guides for Asia. Though long out of print, Asia Overland co-authored with Wil Klass garnered something of a cult following among overland travellers during the late 1990s...
- Mark ElvinMark ElvinMark Elvin is a professor emeritus of Chinese history at Australian National University, specializing in the late imperial period.He is famous for his high level equilibrium trap theory to explain why an industrial revolution happened in Europe but not in China, despite the fact that the state of...
- Joseph EsherickJoseph EsherickJoseph Esherick was an American architect.Esherick was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937, Esherick set up practice in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1953 and taught at University of California, Berkeley for many years...
- John K. FairbankJohn K. FairbankJohn King Fairbank , was a prominent American academic and historian of China.-Education and early career:...
(1907–1991) - Courtenay Hughes FennCourtenay Hughes FennCourtenay Hughes Fenn, or C. H. Fenn, 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 reprints. Fenn's Chinese name was 芳泰瑞 .Fenn was born in 1866 at Clyde, New York,...
- Henry Courtenay FennHenry Courtenay FennHenry Courtenay Fenn, more commonly known as H. C. Fenn, was an American sinologist and architect of Yale University's Chinese language program....
- Gail HershatterGail HershatterGail Hershatter is an American historian, and professor at University of California, Santa Cruz.She graduated from Hampshire College with a B.A., from Stanford University with a M.A., and from Stanford University with a Ph.D....
- David HintonDavid Hinton-Life:He studied Chinese at Cornell University, and in Taiwan. He lives in East Calais, Vermont.-Awards:* 1997 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award* fellowship from the Witter Bynner Foundation...
- Dale HoibergDale HoibergDale Hollis Hoiberg is a sinologist and has been the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica since 1997. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Chinese literature and began to work for Encyclopædia Britannica as an index editor in 1978.-External links:*...
- Immanuel C.Y. HsuImmanuel C.Y. HsuImmanuel Chung-Yueh Hsü 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....
(1923–2005) - Ray HuangRay HuangRay Huang was a Chinese historian and philosopher. He was an officer in the Nationalist army and fought in the Burma campaigns. He earned a Ph.D in history from the University of Michigan, worked with Joseph Needham and is a contributor of Needham's Science and Civilisation in China...
(1918–2000) - Charles HuckerCharles HuckerCharles O. Hucker , was a Professor of Chinese language and history at the University of Michigan. He was regarded as one of the foremost historians of Imperial China and a leading figure in the promotion of academic programs in Asian Studies during the 1950s and 1960s.Born in St...
- David KeightleyDavid KeightleyDavid N. Keightley is an American sinologist, historian, and Professor Emeritus, Department of History, at University of California, Berkeley.He graduated from Columbia University with a PhD.-Works:*, Chinese Science, 12, 1995...
- George A. KennedyGeorge A. KennedyGeorge Alexander Kennedy is a contemporary scholar of classical rhetoric and literature.Kennedy received his Ph.D. in classics from Harvard University in 1954 with a dissertation entitled "PROLEGOMENA AND COMMENTARY TO QUINTILIAN VIII "...
- David R. KnechtgesDavid R. KnechtgesDavid R. Knechtges is an American sinologist and professor in the University of Washington's Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, and an expert on Chinese literature of the Han Dynasty and Six Dynasties period....
- David M. LamptonDavid M. LamptonDavid M. Lampton is George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies . He is Director of China Studies at SAIS. He is Former President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations in New York City...
- Owen LattimoreOwen LattimoreOwen Lattimore was an American author, educator, and influential scholar of Central Asia, especially Mongolia. In the 1930s he was editor of Pacific Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and then taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1938 to 1963...
- Mark Edward LewisMark Edward LewisMark Edward Lewis is an American historian of ancient China. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago and studied Chinese at the International Chinese Language Program . Since 2002 he has been Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture at Stanford University...
- Paul Linebarger
- E. Perry LinkPerry LinkPerry Link is Chancellorial Chair Professor for Innovative TeachingComparative Literature & Foreign Languages in College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at University of California, Riverside and Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in modern...
- Victor Mair
- Susan MannSusan MannSusan Mann Trofimenkoff, CM, FRSC is a Canadian historian and was president of York University from 1992 to 1997.Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Mann received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963 from the University of Toronto, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1965, a Ph.D....
- Emily MartinEmily MartinEmily Martin is a sinologist, anthropologist, and feminist. Currently, she is a professor of socio-cultural anthropology at New York University. She received her PhD degree from Cornell University in 1971. Before 1984, she published works under the name of Emily Martin Ahern.- Sinology :Martin’s...
- Thomas MetzgerThomas MetzgerThomas Metzger is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He specializes in the intellectual and institutional history of China, studying both the premodern and the modern periods. His current research focuses on contemporary China's moral-political discourse and its...
- Frederick W. MoteFrederick W. MoteFredrick W. Mote 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 Ming Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty...
- Michel OksenbergMichel OksenbergMichel Charles Oksenberg was a leading American political scientist and China watcher who moved between academia and policy work. As a senior member of the National Security Council, he was closely involved in the normalization of U.S.-China relations undertaken during the administration of...
- Elizabeth Perry
- Edward H. SchaferEdward H. SchaferEdward Hetzel Schafer, was a leading historian of Tang Dynasty China. He wrote ground-breaking works such as The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A study of Tang exotics and The Vermilion Bird: T'ang images of the South. Schafer wrote his Ph.D...
- Orville SchellOrville SchellOrville Hickock Schell III is an activist and writer working on China, and is the Arthus Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York...
- Judith ShapiroJudith ShapiroJudith R. Shapiro is a former President of Barnard College, a liberal arts college for women affiliated with Columbia University; as President of Barnard, she was also an academic dean within the university. She was also a professor of anthropology at Barnard...
- Sidney ShapiroSidney ShapiroSidney Shapiro is an American-born author and translator who has lived in China since 1947. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is of Jewish ethnicity. He resides in Beijing, and is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Council...
- Nathan SivinNathan SivinNathan Sivin , also known as Xiwen is an American author, scholar, sinologist, historian, essayist, and currently professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania...
- Jonathan SpenceJonathan SpenceJonathan D. Spence is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most famous book is The Search for Modern China, which has become one of the standard texts on the last several...
- Richard B. StampsRichard B. StampsRichard B. Stamps is an associate professor of anthropology at Oakland University and Chair of The Ambassador Leonard Woodcock Legacy. He is an expert on archeology and cultural anthropology of Taiwan and China. He is known by his Chinese name Yin Yinyin .Stamps was born in Oakland, California....
- Laurence ThompsonLaurence ThompsonLaurence Larry G. Thompson was a World War II veteran, sinologist, classical violinist and USC professor of East Asian languages and cultures emeritus. .-Biography:...
- Tu Wei-mingTu Wei-mingTu Weiming , b.1940, is an ethicist and a New Confucian. He is Lifetime Professor of Philosophy and founding Dean of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University...
- Denis C. TwitchettDenis C. TwitchettDenis Crispin Twitchett was a British Sinologist, specializing in Chinese history, famous for compiling The Cambridge History of China.-Biography:...
(1925–2006) - Frederic WakemanFrederic WakemanFrederic Evans Wakeman, Jr. was a prominent American scholar of East Asian history. He also served as presidents of the American Historical Association and Social Science Research Council in the past.-Biography:...
(1937–2006) - Joanna Waley-CohenJoanna Waley-CohenJoanna Waley-Cohen is a professor of history and chair of the Department of History at New York University. She specializes in early modern Chinese history, Chinese imperial culture, and China and the West.-Biography:...
- Burton WatsonBurton WatsonBurton Watson is an accomplished translator of Chinese and Japanese literature and poetry. He has received awards including the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in 1981 for his translation with Hiroaki Sato of From the Country of...
- Stephen H. WestStephen H. WestStephen H. West, Ph.D is a sinologist, philologist, and translator.Dr. West received his Ph.D from the University of Michigan...
- C. Martin WilburC. Martin WilburC. Martin Wilbur was the George Sansom Professor of Chinese History at Columbia University from 1947 to 1976.-Life:Born in Dayton, Ohio, Wilbur went at an early age with his parents to China, where they worked with the YMCA. He returned to Ohio for college, graduating from Oberlin College in 1931...
- Karl August WittfogelKarl August WittfogelKarl August Wittfogel was a German-American playwright, historian, and sinologist. Originally a Marxist and an active member of the Communist Party of Germany, after the Second World War Wittfogel was an equally fierce anticommunist.-Biography:...
(1896–1988) - R. Bin Wong
- Timothy C. WongTimothy C. WongTimothy C. Wong, Ph.D is a sinologist, translator, and literary theorist.Dr. Wong received his Ph.D from Stanford University. He has taught at The Ohio State University and at Arizona State University, Tempe, where he has held the title of Professor of Chinese since 1995. He was also the...
- Brook ZiporynBrook ZiporynBrook Ziporyn is an American sinologist and philosopher, as well as the leading English language scholar of Tiantai Buddhism. His research focuses on Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism, Chinese intellectual history, and comparative philosophy. He is also known for publishing the most recent...