Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who admires China, its people, or its culture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who loves or admires the Chinese; an admirer of the Chinese nation or of Chinese civilization.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who loves the country, culture, or people of
China .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just a little technical comment -- the proper term is "Sinophile" rather than "Asiaphile."
HH Com 201 (197) Miss Snark 2006
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My friend Paul Ross, a Sinophile if there ever was one, was coming to the end of a five-year stint in Shanghai as Director of Corporate Communications for Alcatel Lucent Asia Pacific.
Joel Epstein: Stop Yawning and Start Building Trains and Other Infrastructure 2010
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The original author is the first, translator Wilson is second, and respected traveler, essayist and Sinophile Bill Porter is the last.
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My friend Paul Ross, a Sinophile if there ever was one, was coming to the end of a five-year stint in Shanghai as Director of Corporate Communications for Alcatel Lucent Asia Pacific.
Stop Yawning and Start Building Trains and Other Infrastructure 2010
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My friend Paul Ross, a Sinophile if there ever was one, was coming to the end of a five-year stint in Shanghai as Director of Corporate Communications for Alcatel Lucent Asia Pacific.
Joel Epstein: Stop Yawning and Start Building Trains and Other Infrastructure 2010
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The original author is the first, translator Wilson is second, and respected traveler, essayist and Sinophile Bill Porter is the last.
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Unabashed Sinophile that I am (my kung fu noir novels reach deep into Chinese history, see them here) I can't help thinking that the ignominy of the last 150 years will, in the view of future historians, be little more than a blip in China's spectacular run.
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He's so interested in the country that he's sometimes branded a Sinophile (3 mentions).
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Where his father was a Sinophile, the son saw a growing military threat.
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Even ethnic Chinese and Sinophile foreign netizens proficient in English barely hold their own in online forums.
Lee Kuan Yew tells China how to play the Western media rules Sun Bin 2008
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