The world sinology of sinology

Overview of World Sinology: World Sinology can be divided into three parts: Sinology in neighboring countries, Sinology in Russia and Sinology in the West.

Sinology in neighboring countries: mainly Japan, South Korea and Vietnam. As far as Japanese literature is concerned, China was accepted earlier. It not only borrows China's language symbols, but also deliberately imitates the content and form of China's classical poems: copying artists, inheriting techniques, imitating topics and abstracting sentences. This literary work created in Chinese is called China Literature, and later there was literature created under pen names-and literature. Therefore, Japanese scholarship is also deeply influenced by China's traditional scholarship. Their sinology research is characterized by compilation, annotation, exegesis, textual research and combing the development history.

Russian sinology: Due to geographical and historical reasons, on the one hand, it faces Western Europe and indirectly obtains sinology information, on the other hand, it pays attention to developing its own sinology research. It has a broad vision, giving consideration to both the East and the West. After the October Revolution, studying China with Marxist academic view is also its characteristic.

Western sinology: Western sinology has a strong western academic color. Compared with Sinology in Japan and South Korea and Sinology in Russia and the Soviet Union, it has unique value and significance. Specifically, there are the following aspects: (1) Chinese and western cultures belong to heterogeneous cultures, and there are many twists and turns in the western acceptance of China. Sinology research faithfully records or truly reflects this process; (2) Western academics are constantly changing, and new research has taken its place, which also affects the study of Sinology, such as writing the general history of China literature, Dunhuang studies, and the traffic history of Central Asia. , earlier than similar research in China; (3) The methodology of western sinology research is extremely active, which clearly reflects whether it is feasible to apply western theories to China and how to operate it correctly, which can provide reference for domestic research.

Sinology and sinology research are two different academic concepts.