sinocentrism

sinocentrism (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Sinocentrism
   • 1988, “Japan’s Turn to the West”, in Peter Duus, editor, The Cambridge History of Japan, volume 5 (The Nineteenth Century), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 435:

     Intellectual activity during the Edo period can be broadly classified into three categories: [...] (2) Japanese learning (kokugaku), which arose in mid-Tokugawa times as a reaction to the sinocentrism that then prevailed in scholarly circles; [...]

   • 1997, Yingjin Zhang, “From “Minority Film” to “Minority Discourse”: Questions of Nationhood and Ethnicity in Chinese Cinema”, in Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu, editor, Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender, Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, pages 81–82 and 95:

     [page 81] While Berry is certainly correct in identifying "sinocentrism," which he would rather term "race-centrism," in post-1949 Chinese film, what he sees as "raceization" (or "sinification" as used elsewhere by Paul Clark) is, I would contend, a politically motivated and manipulated process of cultural production. [...] [page 95] To return to Chris Berry's theory of "race," one realizes that he has made an overstatement in treating recent Chinese films as a radical challenge not only to "sinocentrism" but perhaps also "the very assumption of a fundamental duality separating the Han Chinese and the foreign."

   • 2000, Suisheng Zhao, quoting Wang Peiyuan, “The Origins of Chinese Nationalism”, in A Nation-state by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 43:

     The so-called ancient Chinese patriotism that has been repeatedly discussed by many people was only sinocentrism (huaxia zhongxing zhuyi).

   • 2004, Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, “Localist Position as a Product of Social Opposition”, in Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law, New York, N.Y., Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 126:

     Finally, besides projecting a diminutive view of Taiwan as a regional entity, sinocentrism was overtly dismissive in its attitudes towards the native population. For instance, pejoratives like nuhua (becoming slaves), referring to Taiwanese people's colonial experience, appeared frequently in official documents.

   • 2006, John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman, “The Paradox of Song China and Inner Asia”, in China: A New History, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass., London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Rise and Decline of the Imperial Autocracy), page 112:

     The early tenet of sinocentrism was that the superiority of Zhongguo, the Central State, in wen (culture and civilization) would inevitably dominate the mere military violence (wu) of the Inner Asian tribes.