Sinicization

Sinicisation means to form a social culture chinese. You might be a form of transculturation considered or also known as " China's culture at the heart stellender acculturation " are described.

Background

Sinicisation the one hand, the transcription of foreign languages ​​mean into Chinese, on the other hand, it is frequently used in the social sciences to describe the assimilation of peoples to the Chinese culture. Thus, the Manchus were sinicized as representing the Emperor of China during the Qing dynasty.

The process of Sinicisation for example, had a great influence on Japanese culture, because the Japanese Kanji largely correspond to the Chinese characters. Similarly, in Korea or Vietnam, where it was replaced only in the recent history of the Chinese characters through their own writing (Korea ) and the Latin alphabet (Vietnam).

The Sinicisation was sometimes forced. In particular, the governments of the People 's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan tried to establish the high Chinese by the compulsory education as their main language.

Nowadays Sinicisation usually referred to often targeted resettlement of Han Chinese in the areas of settlement of Chinese minorities, or in the autonomous regions, such as Tibet and Xinjiang. It is often the charge is made that the ethnic groups as a minority in their own homeland, and their culture and language are marginalized.

Sinicisation as acculturation

The term is commonly unilateral than Sinicisation influence on the part of influencing culture or their representatives, ie the so-called Chinese construed. Just but the look in Chinese history shows that very often acculturation on the part of " influencees " were encouraged: for example, the active adoption of writing, the Confucian officials system etc. For this reason, many dynasties whose support no Han apply Chinese were (which, even in the course of the long history formed as such in this form, ie " sinicized " have ) and we so like to call " foreign dynasties ", in China itself as Chinese dynasties: because of their voluntary acculturation ( ie active Sinicisation ), most of which had a self-image as a state power of the Middle Kingdom ( zhongguo = China). For this reason it would be useful to distinguish between an active and a passive Sinicisation - depending on which side of the acculturation processes are triggered or were. Nevertheless, it can be assumed that these are usually not one or the other alone.

Examples

"However, Buddhism was able to insert himself ( sinisieren ) and are an integral part of Chinese culture. "

Under Mao Zedong was a " Sinicisation of Marxism " instead.