What's the difference between sinologist and sinology?
Sinologist
Definition:
(n.) A sinologue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sinologist Ryan Mitchell notes that in a 1948 article, a veteran Chinese communist called Xi Zhongxun was quoted as saying “the most lovable qualities of us Communist party folks are devotion and sincerity”.
(2) In his 20s he was an iconoclastic aesthete, who learned Chinese with the great Swedish sinologist, Bernard Karlgren, in Stockholm, not out of political commitment to Mao's recent revolution, but out of love for a venerable culture of grace and simplicity which, he thought, represented the blissful antithesis of the consumerist west.
(3) After The Lathe of Heaven was published, Le Guin was contacted by a sinologist who informed her that her source for the title was inaccurate – the 1891 James Legge translation she was using had many problems: for one thing, the lathe had not been invented at the time of the Zhuangzi’s composition.
(4) As the distinguished British sinologist Roderick MacFarquhar recently argued, high-level Chinese corruption is not just theft.
(5) Sinologists in the US have long encouraged Washington to reach out to the Chinese public, as well as its leaders.
Sinology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of systemized knowledge which treats of the Chinese, their language, literature, etc.