greater china
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
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The whole territory of China, including China proper, Tibet, Manchuria, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia.
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The historic territories of China or its tributary states, or the imagined future territories of China, including e.g. Taiwan, Outer Mongolia, Indochina, and Outer Manchuria.
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Majority Chinese-speaking territories in East Asia taken as a whole.
Example Sentences
- "Greater China is traversed by two immense mountain systems, which have their rise in the plateau of the Pamirs (q.v.), and which throw off numerous chains as they cross the continent."
- "The vast area of Greater China in its traditional sense holds within it five politicogeographic regions that have survived for centuries in one form or another and are still known today: Manchuria, Mongolia, Sinkiang, Tibet, and China Proper."
- "Is there any way out of this impasse? Seemingly, the Chinese government thinks that economic development and economic-cultural integration of the region within Greater China will stifle the demands for autonomy. But, can the sirens of wealth from Beijing arrive in time to exorcize the growing nationalist feelings in Tibet?"
- "MTAC publications largely consist of pseudo-scholarly articles and books on the history, geography, politics, and, increasingly in later decades, culture of Mongolia, Tibet, and/or other ethnic groups within Greater China."
- "Chinese imperial power for centuries exacted tribute from much of what is now Burma and Indo-China, and Chinese Communist maps today include these areas in "greater China.""
- "According to this understanding, not only are Taiwan, Tibet, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), and Hong Kong part of ‘Greater China’, but also the islands and shoals of the South China Sea – anything within the nine-dash line. For the most extreme, even parts of Korea are included, specifically the territory of the ancient proto-Korean Kingdom of Goguryeo, 37 BC–AD 668 (Chase 2011; Horesh et al. 2014; Yahuda 2013), which, as Gries (2005b) points out, has more to do with national identity, specifically defining the ingroup and Chinese superiority (‘big brother status’) than political, economic, or security reasons."