[ noun ] a student of Chinese history and language and culture <noun.person>
Sinologist \Si*nol"o*gist\, n. A student of China and the Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, history, politics and culture. Same as {sinologue}.
"Taiwan no longer is trying to recover the mainland," says David Shambaugh, a Sinologist at the University of London. "It's trying to buy it back." Chinese officials are ecstatic about what they call "the big typhoon" from Taiwan.