In and out of China the term "sinologue™ has been constantly used to denote some special eminence knowledge of "things Chinese". It must be confessed that journalism has found the term convenient. but whether on journalism the blame must rest for having popularized
spirit of irreverent depreciation of open to, doubt, "This is said in no the "sinologue". On the contrary It is suggested that the high qualities of scholarship and erudition required to make the sinologist are cheapened by the label. Support for this view comes from the Inaugural Lecture delivered by the Rev. E.R. Hughes in the Examination Schools at Oxford, as the first Reader in Chinese Religion and Philosophy in that University. - Mr. Hughes bluntly as: serted. in his opening remarks, that the term "sinologue" had no Basis in As well expect to, find a being who ould be called & "Buropelogue, one qualmed by the tope of his learning {o speak. on all. European. religion, philosophy, "polities, art, economies from the begining of our civilization to: the present way.
Mr. Hughes pleaded for the discard of the term on the ground that for many people ithas an incurably antiquarian favour {if the student in this field was Up old bones rather than concerning imeett with the living culture of a living: people.
Perhaps it is possible to relegate "sinnlogus" to the limbo of what Arthur Quiller-Couch aptly described jas "Jargon", and thus clear the way. for ® more intelligent approach 10 [the study of Chinese affairs,
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