I. Introduction to Sinology
Sinology, or China Studies and China Studies, began in the 1980s, or international sinology, overseas sinology, overseas sinology and world sinology, which refers to the study of China by scholars outside China.
1814121and jean pierre Abel ray musat hosted the first lecture on sinology, which is called the starting point of western sinology. 192 1 In April, with Li's efforts, Jingxing Society, the first academic organization in the western world, was born in Germany.
Second, the research object
Sinology takes the whole of China as the research object, and its research scope can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Sinology in a broad sense includes China's social sciences and some natural sciences; Sinology in a narrow sense only involves some social sciences, such as philosophy, religion, history, Chinese language and writing, such as tradition, catalogue, collation, phonology, exegesis and textual research.
From the disciplinary point of view, Sinology has involved all kinds of events that have happened and may happen in China's social life, and from the disciplinary system, Sinology has included all the knowledge forms that have been established in China.