sinicize
sinicise BrE , also: sinify

He is best known among Chinese for helping sinicize Yunnan province.

"This is an effort to Sinicize the children, to bring them up away from their families, away from their culture."

In order to do this, the KMT attempted to "sinicize" the Taiwanese people.

Many Tibetan independence groups allege that the Chinese government has established these settlements in Tibet in an attempt to sinicize the region.

At the end of World War II, Chinese Kuomintang forces took over Taiwan and soon began an effort to sinicize the population.

On another level, the state's main objective was to "sinicize" the Taiwanese by teaching them Mandarin Chinese and Nationalist ideology through compulsory primary education.

However, attempts to sinicize foreigners or "barbarians" (such as the Vietnamese, and Koreans) who wanted to maintain a separate cultural identity had been going on for millennia.

Earlier historians had emphasized the power of Han Chinese to "sinicize" their conquerors, that is, to assimilate and make them Chinese in their thought and institutions.

The men later remembered as the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Patriarchs have in common a struggle to bend Buddhist thought to Chinese intellectual requirements, to sinicize Buddhism.

In rounds 3 through 15, Mishra spelled "demitasse", "quadrat", "diener", "hyssop", "macédoine", "basenji", "numnah", "chorion", "nacarat", "sinicize", "hyphaeresis", "taleggio" and "esclandre" correctly, in that order.

Kublai renamed the Mongol regime in China Dai Yuan in 1271, and sought to sinicize his image as Emperor of China in order to win control of millions of Chinese people.

With the Ho monarch defeated in 1407, the Chinese began a serious and sustained effort to sinicise the population.