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Sinic

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Sin´ic    (sĭn´ĭk)
a.1.(Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Chinese and allied races; Chinese.


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46) With all of this in mind, Huntington fashions the following list of major civilizations: (1) the Sinic Civilization (sometimes divided into the Buddhist (Vietnam, etc.
The Chinese tradition has as its primary model for interstate relations a system in which legitimate, stable order is possible only when one power reigns supreme--by outright conquest of the Sinic geographic core and by at least tributary relationships with all other participants in the world system.
Owing to a convergence of historical circumstances, the social and cosmological obstacles to capitalism obviously broke down in the West but persisted in Indian and Sinic civilizations.
 
 
 
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