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Sinologists

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• Édouard Chavannes – French sinologist best known for his 1) translations from Sima Qian's Shiji, sections of the Hou Hanshu, and the Weilüe 2) studies of Han dynasty stone carvings and Chinese religion, including the groundbreaking study of the worship of Mount Tai in ancient China. His students included Henri Maspero, Paul Pelliot and Marcel Granet.
• Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz – German general linguist and sinologist, author of comprehensive Chinesische Grammatik.
• Henri Maspero – French sinologist who conducted pioneering works on Taoism.
• Ibn Battuta – Moroccan Berber world explorer
• James Legge – Scottish sinologist was a missionary, the first professor of Chinese at Oxford University, and with Max Müller prepared the 50 volume Sacred Books of the East.
• Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat – French sinologist who studied languages of the Far East and produced the Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises, and the Chinese novel Iu-kiao-li, ou les deux cousines, roman chinois.
• Joseph Needham – British sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science.
• Marcel Granet – French sinologist, one of the first to bring sociological methods to the study of China.
• Marco Polo – Venetian merchant traveler whose book Il Milione introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China.
• Matteo Ricci – Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission.
• Michele Ruggieri – Italian Jesuit priest was one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission, co-author of the first Portuguese-Chinese dictionary, and can be described as the first European sinologist.
• Nicolae Milescu – Moldavian writer, traveler, geographer, and diplomat who was named ambassador of the Russian Empire to Beijing in 1675. He submitted to the Foreign Ministry three volumes of notes of his travels through Siberia and China and later Travels through Siberia to the Chinese borders.
• Nikita Bichurin – one of the founding fathers of Sinology who translated a number of ancient and medieval Chinese manuscripts and published many volumes on Chinese and Mongolian history, geography, religion, statistics, and agriculture.
• Paul Demiéville – studied the Franco-Belgian school of Buddhology. His 1947 work 'Mirror of the Mind' was widely read in the U.S. and inaugurated a series by him on subitism and gradualism.
• Séraphin Couvreur – French Jesuit missionary to China, sinologist, and creator of the EFEO Chinese transcription.