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Sinology the study of Chinese history, language, culture, etc. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Ishikawa Yoshihiro considers the likely sources of geographic determinism apparent in Liang's writings, and Sang Bing reveals the strong role Japanese sinology played in Liang's early writings on "national learning" (guoxue). Despite the brief popularity of the "Little Red Book", the Maoist mystique in the West never rivaled that of Lenin and Stalin, and the premier American school of Sinology, that of John K. Rejecting the implicit perspective of modernization, which assumes that the Chinese have been held back from political and economic progress by their culture, these authors are faithful to the tradition of Western sinology, insofar as they seek to uncover particular Chinese meanings embedded in language, and refuse to assume that what is discovered at one point in Chinese history is necessarily true at another. |
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