The countries and regions of eastern and southeast Asia, especially China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Mongolia.
FarEastern Far' East'ern adj.
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The countries and regions of eastern and southeast Asia, especially China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Mongolia.
FarEastern Far' East'ern adj.
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Far East (1870-9), illustrated journal launched on 30 May 1870 in Yokohama by the Australian John Reddie Black. Altogether, it published nearly 1, 000 photographs of China and Japan. Each issue included six albumen prints, either illustrating the copy or accompanied by a short informative note. Themes were mostly Japanese until 1876, when Black moved to Shanghai and the balance reversed. Credited photographers include Moser (‘our artist’) in Japan, or Saunders, Fisler, Kung Tai, Child, and Edwards in China. Black himself certainly produced many of the anonymous images, and Japanese and Chinese artists also contributed. The journal terminated with the January 1879 issue and Black died shortly afterwards.
A complete run exists at Harvard Widener Library, full Chinese sets at the Bibliothèque Chinoise du Collège de France in Paris and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and a Japanese set at the British Library.
— Régine Thiriez
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Popular expression for the east Asian nations of China, Japan, North Korea and South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan.
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Far East Countries
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| Traditional Chinese | 遠東 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 远东 | ||||||||||||
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| Tagalog | Silanganan (poetic) Malayong Silangan (literal) |
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| Indonesian | Timur Jauh | ||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 極東 | ||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 극동 | ||||||||||||
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| Portuguese | Extremo Oriente | ||||||||||||
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| Russian | Дальний Восток | ||||||||||||
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| Thai | ตะวันออกไกล Tawan-oak klai |
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| Quốc ngữ | Viễn Đông | ||||||||||||
| Chữ nôm | 遠東 (Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary) | ||||||||||||
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The Far East is a term used in English (with equivalents in various other languages of Europe and Asia, Chinese 遠東 yuǎn dōng literally translating to "far east") mostly equivalent to East Asia (including the Russian Far East) and Southeast Asia,[1] sometimes to the inclusion of South Asia for economic and cultural reasons.[2]
"Far East" came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 19th century, denoting Eastern Asia as the "farthest" of the three "easts", beyond the Near East and the Middle East. For the same reason, ancient Chinese people called western countries "Tàixī (泰西)" - i.e. anything further west than India.
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The term Far East was popularized in the English language during the period of the British Empire as a blanket term for lands to the east of British India. Prior to World War I, the Near East referred to relatively nearby lands of the Ottoman Empire, Middle East to northwestern South Asia and Central Asia, and Far East for countries along the western Pacific Ocean and countries along the eastern Indian Ocean. Many European languages have analogous terms, such as the French Extrême-Orient, Spanish Extremo Oriente, Portuguese Extremo Oriente, German Ferner Osten, Italian Estremo Oriente, Polish Daleki Wschód, and Dutch Verre Oosten.
Significantly, the term evokes cultural as well as geographic separation; the Far East is not just geographically distant, but also culturally exotic. It never refers, for instance, to the culturally Western nations of Australia and New Zealand, which lie even farther to the east of Europe than East Asia itself. This combination of cultural and geographic subjectivism was well illustrated in 1939 by the Prime Minister of Australia, R. G Menzies. Reflecting upon his country's geopolitical concerns with the onset of war, Menzies commented that:
"The problems of the Pacific are different. What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north."[3]
Far East in its usual sense is comparable to terms such as the Orient, which means East; the Eastern world; or simply the East. South East Asia and the Russian Far East might now be included in the Far East to some extent due to recent Chinese migration to Russia, and the Korean diaspora in Russia.
The term remains in use, alongside more specific terms such as East Asia and Southeast Asia, or Pacific Rim, and it features in the names of many Asian-based commercial enterprises and institutions. Examples include: Far Eastern National University in Vladivostok, Far Eastern University in the City of Manila, South Korean's Far East University, and the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review. Furthemore, the United Kingdom and United States of America have historically used Far East for several military units and commands in the region:
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