Region with cultural ties to Chinese people
"
Greater China
" is a term describing a geographical area sharing cultural and economic ties with the
Chinese people
.
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
The notion contains a "great deal of ambiguity in its geographical coverage and politico-economic implications",
[5]
because some users use it to refer to "the commercial ties among ethnic Chinese, whereas others are more interested in cultural interactions, and still others in the prospects for political reunification"
[6]
but usually refers to an area encompassing
mainland China
,
Hong Kong
,
Macau
and
Taiwan
, places where the majority population is culturally Chinese.
[7]
[8]
[9]
Some analysts may also include places which have predominantly
ethnic Chinese population
such as
Singapore
. The term can be generalised to encompass "linkages among regional Chinese communities".
[10]
[11]
The term's usage is contested; some observers in Taiwan characterise the term as harmful or a conflation of distinct polities and markets,
[4]
while the Chinese government has avoided it, either to allay fears of its economic expansionism or to avoid suggesting Taiwan and the
People's Republic of China
are on equal footing. Australian sinologist
Wang Gungwu
has characterised the concept as a "myth", and "wrong" if applied to
overseas Chinese
communities.
[12]
Usage
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]
Multinational corporations
frequently use the term when naming their
headquarters
in the region. For example,
Procter & Gamble
uses the term to name its regional headquarters in
Guangzhou
that also operates in
Hong Kong
and
Taipei
;
[13]
Apple Inc.
uses it when referring to its regional headquarters in
Shanghai
.
[14]
[15]
The term is often used to avoid invoking sensitivities over the
political status of Taiwan
.
[16]
Contrastingly, it has been used in reference to
Chinese irredentism
in
nationalist
contexts, such as the notion that China should reclaim its "lost territories" to create a Greater China.
[17]
[18]
History
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The term has been used for a long time, but with differing scopes and connotations.
During the 1930s,
George Cressey
, an American academic who did work for the US State Department throughout his career, used the term to refer to the entirety of the territory controlled by the
Qing dynasty
, as opposed to
China proper
.
[19]
Usage by the United States on government maps in the 1940s as a political term included territories
claimed by the Republic of China
that were part of the previous Qing Empire, or geographically to refer to topographical features associated with China that may or may not have lain entirely within Chinese political borders.
[19]
The concept began to appear again in Chinese-language sources in the late 1970s, referring to the growing commercial ties between the mainland and Hong Kong, with the possibility of extending these to Taiwan, with perhaps the first such reference being in a Taiwanese journal
Changqiao
in 1979.
[19]
The English term subsequently re-emerged in the 1980s to refer to the growing economic ties between the regions as well as the possibility of political unification.
[19]
It is not an institutionalized entity such as the
EU
,
ASEAN
, or
AU
. The concept is a generalization to group several markets seen to be closely linked economically and does not imply
sovereignty
.
[16]
The concept does not always include Taiwan, for instance Cisco uses "Greater China and Taiwan" to refer to the market.
[20]
See also
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References
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]
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"Pact row could harm Greater China economic integration: ANZ"
.
Focus Taiwan
. 2 April 2014
. Retrieved
6 November
2018
.
- ^
MTV Channels In Southeast Asia and Greater China To Exclusively Air The Youth Inaugural Ball
Archived
22 May 2009 at the
Wayback Machine
? MTV Asia
- ^
1 June 2008,
Universal Music Group realigns presence in Greater China
Archived
14 December 2017 at the
Wayback Machine
, Television Asia
- ^
a
b
Lee, James (6 August 2021).
"
'Greater China' is a harmful myth"
.
Taipei Times
. Retrieved
30 October
2023
.
- ^
Huang, Jianli (2010). "Conceptualizing Chinese Migration and Chinese Overseas: The Contribution of Wang Gungwu".
Journal of Chinese Overseas
: 12.
- ^
Harding, Henry (1993). "The concept of "Greater China": Themes, variations and reservations".
The China Quarterly
.
136
: 660?686.
doi
:
10.1017/S030574100003229X
.
S2CID
154522700
.
- ^
William, Yat Wai Lo (2016).
"The concept of greater China in higher education: adoptions, dynamics and implications"
.
Comparative Education
.
52
: 26?43.
doi
:
10.1080/03050068.2015.1125613
.
This term can be narrowly defined as referring to a geographic concept that consists of the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macau Special Administrative Region, where ethnic Chinese comprise the majority of the population. In this sense, the term is used to describe the ethnic and the associated political, economic and cultural ties among these Chinese societies (Harding 1993; Cheung 2013).
- ^
"Apple overtakes Lenovo in China sales"
. Financial Times. 18 August 2011.
Archived
from the original on 27 November 2011
. Retrieved
19 November
2011
.
- ^
4月29日日?新?摘要(大中??)
[29 April: Daily news summary (Greater China)].
Reuters
(in Chinese). 29 April 2019.
- ^
William, Yat Wai Lo (2016).
"The concept of greater China in higher education: adoptions, dynamics and implications"
.
Comparative Education
.
52
: 26?43.
doi
:
10.1080/03050068.2015.1125613
.
However, some analysts see the Greater China concept as a way to summarise 'the linkages among the fair-flung international Chinese community', thereby incorporating Singapore and overseas Chinese communities in their usage of the term (Harding 1993, 660; also see Wang 1993).
- ^
Harding, Harry (December 1993).
"The Concept of "Greater China": Themes, Variations and Reservations*"
.
The China Quarterly
.
136
: 660?686.
doi
:
10.1017/S030574100003229X
.
ISSN
1468-2648
.
S2CID
154522700
.
- ^
He, Henry Yuhuai (2001). "Greater China"
大中?
.
Dictionary of the Political Thought of the People's Republic of China
. M. E. Sharpe. pp. 47?48.
ISBN
978-0-765-60569-6
.
- ^
"P&G in Greater China"
.
www.pgcareers.com
. Retrieved
16 March
2020
.
- ^
"Isabel Ge Mahe named Apple's managing director of Greater China"
.
Apple Newsroom
. Retrieved
16 March
2020
.
- ^
Mickle, Andrew Dowell and Tripp (14 March 2020).
"Apple Closes All Its Stores Outside China Over Coronavirus"
.
Wall Street Journal
. Retrieved
16 March
2020
.
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a
b
Aretz, Tilman (2007).
The greater China factbook
. Taipei: Taiwan Elite Press.
ISBN
978-986-7762-97-9
.
OCLC
264977502
.
Archived
from the original on 31 January 2009.
- ^
Tseng, Hui-Yi (2017).
Revolution, State Succession, International Treaties and the Diaoyu/Diaoyutai Islands
. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 66.
ISBN
9781443893688
.
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Kim, Samuel S. (1979).
China, the United Nations, and World Order
.
Princeton University Press
. p.
43
.
ISBN
9780691100760
.
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a
b
c
d
Harding, Harry (December 1993). "The Concept of 'Greater China': Themes, Variations and Reservations".
The China Quarterly
.
136
(136, Special Issue: Greater China): 660?686.
doi
:
10.1017/S030574100003229X
.
S2CID
154522700
.
- ^
"The Rundown: Pegatron's Tesla Ambitions, Tech Sector Bonuses, and Cisco's New Software Center"
.
topics.amcham.com.tw
. Taiwan Topics. 18 January 2021
. Retrieved
18 January
2021
.
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