Greater China

Definitions

1. 1

   The whole territory of China, including China proper, Tibet, Manchuria, Xinjiang and…

   The whole territory of China, including China proper, Tibet, Manchuria, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia.

   • 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.
2. 2

   The historic territories of China or its tributary states, or the imagined future…

   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.

   • 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."
   • The Chinese nationalist revisionism aims at expansion beyond its current borders while taking control of new territories which it claims should belong to “Greater China” based on historical and/or demographic claims.
3. 3

   Majority Chinese-speaking territories in East Asia taken as a whole.

   • 日本では色や柄があるデザインが売れにくいんだけど 中華圏だとこうゆうデザインの売り上げがいいんです

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