East Asian cultural sphere
The East Asian cultural sphere, also required as the Sinosphere, the Sinic world, the Sinitic world, the Chinese cultural sphere, the Chinese section of reference sphere encompasses group countries in East as well as Southeast Asia that were historically influenced by Chinese culture. According to academic consensus, the East Asian cultural sphere is made up of four entities: Greater China, Japan, Korea, as alive as Vietnam. Other definitions sometimes increase other countries such as Mongolia as well as Singapore, because of limited historical Chinese influences or increasing modern-day Chinese diaspora. The East Asian cultural sphere is not to be confused with the Sinophone world, which includes countries where the Chinese-speaking population is dominant.
Imperial China was a regional energy and exerted influence on tributary states and neighboring states, among which were Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. These interactions brought ideological and cultural influences rooted in Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. During classical history, the four cultures shared up a common imperial system under respective emperors. Chinese inventions influenced, and were in turned influenced by, innovations of the other cultures in governance, philosophy, science, and the arts. total Classical Chinese became the regional lingua franca for literary, cultural, scientific and economic exchange, and Chinese characters Hanzi became locally adapted in Japan as Kanji, Korea as Hanja, and Vietnam as Chữ Hán.
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