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Pekin(g)ology|piːkɪˈnɒlədʒɪ, piːkɪŋ-|
[f. Pekin(g) (see Peking) + -ology.]
The study of Chinese politics and current affairs.
1962Economist 21 Apr. 228/1 Pekinology is the murkiest of arts, and it takes something like extra-sensory perception to glean much about Chinese policy from the session. 1966N.Y. Times 3 Apr. iv. 6 Practitioners of the recondite art of Pekinology say that if Chairman Mao died tomorrow the party leadership probably would fall. 1976Pacific Affairs XLIX. 126 Inevitably, a study of China's past zone of expansion leads geographically up to and into the zone of Russia's more recent expansion, and here power-politics, geo-politics, Kremlinology and Pekinology raise their hydra heads.
So Pekiˈn(g)ologist, an expert on or student of Chinese politics and current affairs.
1962Economist 21 Apr. 228/2 He [sc. Chou En-Lai] mentioned light and heavy industry in that order (which is the kind of clue that Pekinologists have to fall back on). 1966Guardian 27 July 8/6 If Mao wasn't actually ailing through all these months of secluded speculation, what was he doing? Our tame Pekinologist suggests: training for his epic swim. 1968W. Safire New Lang. Politics 76/1 A new synonym for China watcher is ‘Pekingologist’, coined on the analogy of Kremlinologist. 1969Punch 2 Apr. 478 Fleet Street is said to be desperate for reliable Pekinologists who can churn out a thousand weekly words on the Chinese enigma. 1972D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xvi. 150 They've had the pekinologists declaring Mao dead, blind, gaga. |