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On Sinocentrism - Tan Chung, 1973
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On Sinocentrism: A Critique

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Volume 9, Issue 5
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1 "One well-marked feature of this tradition was its preservation of Sinocentrism by the constant use of Sinocentric terminology, as was evidenced in all aspects of the tribute system ..." Fair- banks : The Chinese World Order (Harvard, 1968), p. 4.
2 This form appears in Chai-ku-wen, the Oracle Inscriptions of the Yin period in the second millennium B.C. Cf. Chang Hsuan :The Ety mologies of 3000 Chinese Characters (Hong Kong University, 1968), p. 191.
3 Yen K'o-chun (1762-1843), ed.: Ch'uan Shang- ku san-tai wen (1st ed., 1894, reprint, Taipei, 1963), Chuan 9, p. 9B.
4 Ibid Chuan 2, p. 4A.
5 Shih-chi, Chuan 122.
6 Ibid (Chung-hua ed. 1959), vol. 9, 2888, note 2.
7 Fang Hao : Sung-shih (Taipei, 1965), vol. 2, pp. 1-42.
8 Shu-ching, chapter 8.
9 Li-chi, chapter 4.
10 K'ung Ying-ta, et al. : Li-chi cheng-yi, chapter 4. See Yang Chia-luo ed : Li-chi chu-shu chi pu-cheng (Taipei, 1963), vol. 1, p. 25A.
11 Hsu Shen : Shuo-wen chieh-tzu, chapter 1A.
12 Benjamin I. Schwartz : "The Chinese per ception of world order", in Fairbank, ed. : The Chinese World Order, p. 279.
13 S.Y. Teng and J. Ingalls, tr. and ed. : The Political History of China (New Jersey, 1966), p. 43.
14 Immanuel C.Y. Hsu : China's Entrance into the Family of Nations (Harvard, 1960), p. 6.
15 Cf. Derk Bodde tr. of Fung Yu-lan's A History of Chinese Philosophy (Princeton, 1952), vol. 2, p. 119.
16 Hsu Shen : op cit.
17 One of China's most influential intellectuals after the Cultural Revolution. He was a revolutionary, doctor, historian, archaeologist and literary writer, and has been the President of the Acade my of Science of China, Peking since its inception.
18 Hongqi, 1972, No. 7, p. 58.
19 Shu-ching, chapter 11.
20 Ch'uan shang-ku-wen, chuan 6, p. 8.
21 Shu-ching, chapter 5 and 6. See also K'ung An kuo's (approx. 156-74 B.C.) and K'ung Ying- ta's annotations.
22 Ibid, chapter 11.
23 Ch'uan shang-ku wen, chuan 2, p. 8A.
24 Ta-hsueh, chapter 1.
25 Ch'uan shang-ku wen, chuan 8, p. 8A.
26 Ibid, chuan 9, p. 7A.
27 Yen K'o-chun ed : Ch'uan ch'in-wen (1st ed. 1894, reprint, Taipei 1963), chuan 1, p. 3A.
28 Ibid, p. 9A.
29 Yen K'o-chun ed. : Ch'uan han-wen (1st ed. 1894, reprint, Taipei, 1963), chuan 1, p. 4B.
30 Shih-chi, chuan 8.
31 Shu-ching, chapter 4.
32 Ibid, chapter 9.
33 Ch'uan shang-ku wen, chuan 2, p. 9A.
34 Shu-ching. chuan 11 and 13.
35 Ibid, chuan 14.
36 Ch'uan-han wen, chuan 2, p. 3B.
37 Tz'u-hai (Shanghai, 1939), vol. 1, 82, "Chung shih" ; p, 84, "Chung-t' ang"; p. 89, "chung-shu sheng".
38 Ibid, vol. 2, p. 214, "wai-kuan".
39 The Manchu imperial court used to blame erring officials for being infected by the bad habit of Wai sheng. Cf. Ch'ing kao-tsung shih-lu chuan 1431, p. 16.
40 Fairbank : op cit, pp. 9-10.
41 T'zu-hai, vol. 1, p. 54, "shang-kuo".
42 Ibid, p. 80, "chung-t'u".
43 Wu-hsu pien-fa, vol. 1, p. 123, 126 and passim.
44 Tao-hsuan : Shih-chia fang-chih, chuan 1, in Taisho Daizokyo, vol. 51, p. 949.
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