Barbarian Tribes

[zweckanschauer]

Hi I've come across a journal article in which the author, writing in English, made reference to "Barbarian Tribes" and provided as its Pinyin "fan zu

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[reny]

番族。
番人 is barbarian.
番 was used frequently with things associated with foreigners, westerners. i would guess that 番薯 is one example.

[notkoan]

that is correct. same with 蕃茄.

[zweckanschauer]

Thanks you two.

[contrariandoer]

Yep, Chinese ethnocentrism.

[zweckanschauer]

They have a word for it: Sinocentrism.

[contrariandoer]

Has anyone written a book on it?

[zweckanschauer]

It's not a fully fledged theory like Said's Orientalism if you mean it that way, but you easily come across words like Sinocentric and Sinocentrism in history books about China's view of the world order.