Greater China

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This article deals with the cultural space. For the states see People's Republic of China and Republic of China (Taiwan) . For further meanings, see China (disambiguation) .

As Greater China (English Greater China ) is in the cultural, economic and geopolitical denotes a sense of space, of the People's Republic of China ( mainland China , Hong Kong , Macao ) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) includes. Occasionally Singapore and overseas Chinese are also counted as part of Greater China.

etymology

The word China is derived from the Sanskrit word cīna चीन , which in turn goes back to the Chinese name of the state of Qin (778–207 BC) or the state of Jin (11th century – 349 BC). In the Middle Ages (around Marco Polo's times ), China was not known in the west as a unified cultural area. A distinction was made between northern China, which was called Cathaia, Kitaia, Khitai, Catai or Kitai . This expression is derived from the name given by the Kitan , who established the Liao dynasty in northern China in the 10th to 12th centuries . At that time, southern China was rarely known under the term Mánzǐ Mangi ( 蠻子  /  蛮子 ), which goes back to the derogatory Chinese term for the southern Chinese peoples - roughly comparable to the expression “ barbarian ” in the Graeco-Romanic culture.

The self-designation Zhōng guó ( 中國  /  中国  - "literally. Middle Kingdom") has been around since the 1st millennium BC. In use. It describes the original royal rule in the north Chinese central plain ( 中原 , Zhōng yuán ), which geographically represents the core area of ​​China and the cradle of Chinese culture .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Normally, Greater China refers to China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, and Taiwan." Carol Yeh-Yun Lin, Leif Edvinsson, Jeffrey Chen, Tord Beding: National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan . Springer, 2012; P. 3.
2. ^ André Gunder Frank: The 21st century will be an Asian one. In: PROKLA 139, focus on global inequalities. Retrieved August 10, 2015 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Dieter Kuhn : East Asia until 1800 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-010843-2 , pp. 20th f .