I wrote to you a few months ago about the
sinicization (when cultures adopt Chinese influences) of making skate magazines.
Various forms of western propaganda have taken to condemning China in its alleged Islamic
Sinicization, which calls for millions of Uighur Muslims being interred in re-education camps to pledge their first loyalty to the Party.
But
sinicization should not mean colonization, for that is where our relationship with China is going, with its occupation of portions of our territory.Can we therefore conclude that, for all our respect for China, China is not our friend but our enemy now?
In the past, Beijing has adopted heavy-handed measures with the authorities confiscating copies of the Quran, issuing diktats to Muslims not to grow beards, and not choose names for their wards which sound "too Islamic." Defending the "
Sinicization" of Islam move, the Global Times in an opinionated report, said: "Generally speaking, modern countries are secular and diverse in a globalized world.
In a narrow sense, it refers to the theoretical trend of literature and art of developed capitalist countries, which has transformed the discourse of contemporary Chinese literary theory since the twentieth century, such as "the
Sinicization of Western literary theory," "the introduction of Western literary theory in the new era and the interpretation of literary classics in China," "discussion on the issue of western literary history" and so forth.
Among the topics are a preliminary overview of the genealogy of philosophy/zhexue in China 1888-1930, philosophy in the clothes of history: the case of the Book of the Later Han (Han Hanshu, New Confucianism and the
sinicization of metaphysics and transcendentalism: conceptualizations of philosophy in the early works of Xiong Shili and Mou Zongsan, Kukai's philosophy of language: reflections on the usage of the word philosophy, and towards a critical public sphere: Tosaka Jun on philosophical journalism and journalistic philosophy.
One example is the
sinicization of Buddhism that becomes visible in the style of garments of early Chinese Buddhist sculpture.
The topics of indigenization (since 1992), accommodation (since 1992), and
sinicization (since 2004) of Christianity in China have been hotly discussed.
Indeed, Xi introduced a
Sinicization policy in 2015, where religions should be subjugated to socialist ideology.
Unlike some free trade prophets who think of globalization as just another form of Americanization, Rodrik warns it could as easily turn out to be a form of
Sinicization.
Brindley rejects
sinicization as a useful interpretive model, despite the evidence that Yue elites were adopting Chinese ways, willingly or by force.
