Naming spaces

This article examines the politics of naming geographic spaces, concentrating on East Asia, especially on what has been happening in Japanese and Chinese language areas. The plot of the narrative is gradual crumbling of the European oecumene, established during the colonial centuries, when maps bec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pekka Korhonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Geographical Society of Finland 1999-02-01
Series:Fennia: International Journal of Geography
Online Access:https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/8938