scholar; Confucian

learned scholar

experienced scholar; old expert in the field

cynic

unrealistic; pedantic and impractical

Li Yingru (1913-1989), calligrapher and writer, author of many novels about the war as seen by the communists

Great European Scholar (honorific title of Matteo Ricci)

to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])