East Asian cultural sphere
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The "Sinosphere", or "East Asian cultural sphere", refers to a grouping of countries and regions in East Asia that were historically influenced by the Chinese culture. Other names for the concept include the Sinic world, the Confucian world, the Taoist world, and the Chinese cultural sphere, though the last is also used to refer particularly to the Sinophone world: the areas which speak varieties of Chinese.
The East Asian cultural sphere shares a Confucian ethical philosophy, Buddhism, Taoism and, historically, a common writing system. The core regions of the East Asian cultural sphere are Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
The terms East Asian cultural sphere and "Chinese character (Hànzì) cultural sphere" are used interchangeably with "Sinosphere" but have different denotations.
See also
- Sinosphere (linguistics)
- Adoption of Chinese literary culture
- East Asia
- Sinophone world
- Sinoxenic
- Culture of China
- Culture of Korea
- Culture of Japan
- Culture of Taiwan
- Culture of Vietnam
