What is East Asian cultural sphere?
{{no sources|date=September 2020}} [[File:East Asian Cultural Sphere.svg|thumb|East Asian Cultural Sphere]] The '''East Asian cultural sphere''', '''Sinosphere''', or '''Chinese sphere of influence''', is a region in [[Asia]] that has many [[Influence|influences]] from [[Chinese culture]]. These including the use of [[Chinese characters]], [[clothing]], [[art]], [[food]], [[Invention|inventions]], [[Social structure|social structures]], [[government]] structures, [[Religion|religious]] [[Idea|ideas]], and many other influences. The area is made of the [[Greater China|Greater China region]] ([[mainland China]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Macau]], and [[Taiwan]]), [[Japan]], [[Korea]], [[Singapore]], and sometimes [[Mongolia]] and [[Vietnam]] (depending on who you ask). Since China had a very large [[trade network]], it was able to easily share its goods and ideas across [[Eurasia]], and especially its neighboring [[Country|countries]] in [[East Asia]]. At one point, all the countries wrote only using [[Chinese characters]], but nowadays, only [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and [[Japanese language|Japanese]] speakers write using Chinese characters in everyday life. All the other countries either created a new writing system (Korea and Mongolia), or replaced Chinese characters with a different, already existing writing system (Mongolia, again, and Vietnam). Nonetheless, the languages of each country still have many [[Chinese loanwords]]. [[Category:East Asia]] [[Category:Chinese culture]] [[Category:Japanese culture]] [[Category:Korean culture]] [[Category:Vietnamese culture]] [[Category:Singaporean culture]] [[Category:Cultural geography]] {{asia-stub}}