Abdürreşit Celil Karluk
According to Fei Xiaotong, Chineseness is actually like a snowball. It is the process of social and cultural assimilation of non-Chinese foreigners within its political borders, which grows by clinging to the foreigners around it, with Huaxia at its core. The Chinese, who keep the Chineseness alive, have always kept themselves separate and superior to the others.
China, sociologically, can be generally divided into cultural China and political China. Cultural China is a homogeneous reality in which all the elements that make up Chineseness are completely dominated, and there is essentially no difference. Political China, on the other hand, is the regions inhabited by non-Chinese peoples who are later included in China's hegemony, who are dependent or indirectly governed by China. In Chinese history, cultural China always wants to swallow political China, and for this, it develops a strategy and implements it persistently. When political China becomes cultural China, a political China is reconstructed. Political China was often built by foreigners who dominated China.
This study deals with Chineseness and the strategies applied in the process of governing with the others in the order in which Chinese is dominant, and the social and cultural integration processes of non-Chinese peoples in Chineseness from a sociological perspective. Related topics covered; It will help to understand the inhumane practices of the CCP power in East Turkestan, Tibet and Hong Kong, as well as the Chineseization of religions, the prohibition of foreign resources in educational institutions, and Chinese-specific situations such as debt diplomacy and credit trapping.