What is Chinese studies? What aspects of China's traditional ideology and culture are embodied in Sinology?

Sinology is a term that came into being in the 1920s. Generally refers to a country's traditional history, culture and scholarship, so it can also be called a country's literature or scholarship.

China's sinology, in short, is China's ancient theory, which is represented by pre-Qin philosophers. The thoughts and theories of the pre-Qin philosophers had a far-reaching influence on the traditional culture of China, forming the thoughts of military strategists, legalists, Mohists, Confucianists and Taoists. These thoughts discussed how to govern the country and end the war from different aspects, which had a far-reaching impact on the rulers of China, thus gradually forming China's traditional cultural concept. In a narrow sense, Sinology refers to China's traditional culture and scholarship with Confucianism as the main body. Nowadays, the traditional Chinese studies generally refer to a unique and complete cultural and academic system based on pre-Qin classics and hundred schools of thought's theory, including Confucian classics in Han Dynasty, metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties, Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, Han Fu in the same period, parallel prose in Six Dynasties, poems in Tang and Song Dynasties, Yuan Qu, novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and historiography of past dynasties.

Therefore, in a broad sense, China's ancient and modern culture and scholarship include history, thought, philosophy, religion, ethics, geography, politics, economy, and even calligraphy and painting, music, customs, techniques, medicine, astrology, architecture and so on. They are all areas involved in Chinese studies. (Quoted from Heshui Zuo document)