(born 1970) Corinne Debaine-Francfort (birth date unknown) Michel Soymié (1924–2002) Joël Bellassen (born 1950) Germany Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874) – linguist; author of comprehensive Chinesische Grammatik. Herbert Franke (1914–2011) – historian of Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Otto Franke (1863–1946) Wolfgang Franke (1912–2007), son of Otto Emil Krebs (1867–1930) – Polyglot Yu-chien Kuan (1931–2018) Wolfgang Kubin (born 1945) Walter Liebenthal (1886–1982) Klaus Mühlhahn (born 1963) Christian Schwarz-Schilling (born 1930) Erling von Mende (born 1940) Rudolf G. Wagner (born 1941) Richard Wilhelm (1873–1930) – his translations of the I Ching and other philosophical works popularized classical Chinese thought throughout the Western World. Greece Dimitri Kitsikis (born 1935) Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics at the University of Ottawa Hungary Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky (born 1974) Étienne Balazs (1905–1963) Imre Galambos (born 1967) Imre Hamar (born 1968) László Ladány (1914–1990) Lajos Magyar (1891–1940) Gábor Kósa (born 1971) Zsolt Tokaji (born 1971) India Tan Yun-Shan (1898-1983) Tan Chung Yukteshwar Kumar B R Deepak Prabodh Chandra Bagchi Srikanth Kondapalli Jaideep Saikia Ireland Sean Hurley Italy Martino Martini (1614–1661) Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607) Giuseppe Tucci (1894–1984) Japan Masaru Aoki 靑木正兒 (1887–1964) Tetsuji Morohashi 諸橋轍次 (1883–1982) A. Charles Muller D. T. Suzuki 鈴木大拙 (1870–1966) Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 (1866–1945) Kōjirō Yoshikawa 吉川幸次郎; 18 March 1904 – 8 April 1980) Yoshimi Takeuchi 竹內好 (1910–1977) Naitō Torajirō 內藤虎次郎 (1866–1934) Fukui Fumimasa 福井文雅 (1934–2017) Kazakhstan Yury Zuev (1932–2006) Moldova Nicolae Milescu – Moldavian writer, traveler, geographer, and diplomat who was named ambassador of the Russian Empire to Beijing in 1675. He submitted to the Foreign Ministry three volumes of notes of his travels through Siberia and China and later Travels through Siberia to the Chinese borders. Netherlands J.J.L. Duyvendak (1889–1954) Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (1854–1921), scholar of Chinese folk religion Robert van Gulik (1910–1967) Hans van de Ven New Zealand Rewi Alley Norway Henry Henne (1918–2002) Poland Michał Boym Portugal Gaspar da Cruz (c.1520–1570), author of the first book on China in Western Europe Bento de Góis (c.1562–1607), historian from China Philippines Alfredo Co Russia Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin (1775–1853) Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov (1817–1878) Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov (1932–2013) Peter A. Boodberg (1903–1972) Julian Shchutsky (1897–1938) Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev (1881–1951) Nikolai Iosifovich Konrad (1891–1970) Nikolai Fedorenko (1912–2000) Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954) Singapore Wang Gungwu Slovenia Jana S. Rošker Mitja Saje Spain Miguel de Benavides (c. 1552–1605), then based in Spanish Colonial Philippines. (3rd Archbishop of Manila and