Sinocentrism (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sinocentrism or is any ethnocentric perspective that regards China to be the center of civilization and superior to all other nations. Depending on the historical context, sinocentrism can refer to either the ethnocentrism of the Han people and Han culture, or the more recent concept of zhonghua minzu popularized by the non-Han Manchu Qing dynasty. It was popular among the Chinese elites up to the Qing dynasty, but it is not so widely popular among Chinese in present day. In pre-modern times, it took the form of viewing China as the only civilization in the world, and foreign nations or ethnic groups as "barbarians" of different degrees, a distinction known in Chinese as the Hua-Yi distinction. In modern times, it can take the form of according China significance or supremacy at the cost of other nations.