William, Yat Wai Lo (2016). «The concept of greater China in higher education: adoptions, dynamics and implications». Comparative Education52: 26–43. doi:10.1080/03050068.2015.1125613. «This term can be narrowly defined as referring to a geographic concept that consists of the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macau Special Administrative Region, where ethnic Chinese comprise the majority of the population. In this sense, the term is used to describe the ethnic and the associated political, economic and cultural ties among these Chinese societies (Harding 1993; Cheung 2013).».
William, Yat Wai Lo (2016). «The concept of greater China in higher education: adoptions, dynamics and implications». Comparative Education52: 26–43. doi:10.1080/03050068.2015.1125613. «However, some analysts see the Greater China concept as a way to summarise ‘the linkages among the fair-flung international Chinese community’, thereby incorporating Singapore and overseas Chinese communities in their usage of the term (Harding 1993, 660; also see Wang 1993).».
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