Article 2: Questions 46-50
 Jonathan D. Spence, a British-botrn historian who became a longtime Yale Universityprofessor and prominent sinologist and attracted a wide following with his 1990 best-sellet "The Seatch for Modern China," has died at age 85. Spence, who retired from Yalein 2008, died Satutday at his home in West Haven, Connecticut. [S] His wife and fellowYale ptofessot, Annping Chin, said the cause was complications from Patkinson's   disease.[T]. The recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, a Los Angeles Times book prize andnumerous othet honots, Spence wrote more than a dozen books on China, along withreviews, essays and lectures. He was best known for "The Search for Modern China," an870-page publication that began in the 17th century, at the peak of the Ming dynasty, andcontinued through the 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. As suggested by the books title, Spence approached China as if witing [A], decipheringfor Western teadets one of the world's largest, most populous and complex countries.[U]. He noted the "patterns of generational deference and concepts of obligation" andthe rebellions designed to shatter them, whethet the sacking of Beijing in 1644, the 1911fall of the last empcror or the Communist ttiumph of the late 1940s."We can see how often the Chinese people, operating in difficuit or even desperatecircumstances, seized their own fate and threw themselves against the power of thestate," he wrote. [V]
 "We can see how in 1644, again in 1911, and then again in 1949,disillusion with the present and a cettain nostalgin for the past could combine with apassionate hope for the future to bring the old ordet ctashing down, opening the way foran uncettain passage to the new."'
【題組】46. What does the word "sinologist" mean?
(A) a scholar of American culture
(B) a scholar of Asian culture
(C) a scholar of Chinese cultute
(D) a scholar of Kotean culture