Sinophone & Colonial History

"I coin the term Sinophone to designate Sinitic-language cultures and communities outside China as well as those ethnic communities within China, where Sinitic languages are either forcefully imposed or willingly adopted. The Sinophone, like the history of other nonmetropolitan peoples who speak metropolitan and/or colonial languages, has a colonial history"

Shu-mei Shih, "Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of Cultural Production"