Author: Rodrigo Moura

Many wonder about what is Sinology, what does a sinologist, who is considered Sinologist or not and what is the purpose of this career. As Sinology itself teaches us through one of its famous Chengyu expressions: Dào Shān Xué Hǎi (Daoshan Xuehai), which in a free translation means: learning is as high as the mountain and as deep as the ocean, however, if we do a literal analysis, we will see that Confucius, who was assigned that expression, associated Dào (Tao), the way or doctrine to Shān (mountain) Mountain. So that we can deduce that the road to knowledge is as high as the mountain, that reaching the peak requires effort, so something tiring and laborious. And when we talk about Dào (Tao) way, we bring up, the Taoism, Chinese Buddhism and Confucianism which...