The Case for the Integrity of Sinology

@article{Mote1964TheCF,  title={The Case for the Integrity of Sinology},  author={Frederick W. Mote},  journal={The Journal of Asian Studies},  year={1964},  volume={23},  pages={531 - 534},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:163521238}}
Sinology, and the case for the integrity of it: the one key word in that phrase has been as hard to define as the other has been to achieve in practice. If we can scarcely define it, and if there is no hope of achieving it for the masses, why then talk about it at all in the year 1964? I believe we can try to define Sinology, and we can point to some who have achieved it in practice. It might have seemed wisest to ask someone who has at least come close to achieving the Sinological ideal to be… 
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