英语词汇bamboo curtain的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bamboo curtain. The bamboo curtain is a term suggested by the iron curtain that means a political and economic barrier between China and noncommunist countries. The policy came into effect when Mao Zedong (Tse-tung) cut China off from much of the free world after winning the Communist revolu- tion. The expression may have been invented at Time magazine, in which it was first recorded on March 14, 1949: “The Com- munist bosses of Peiping dropped a bamboo curtain cutting off Peiping from the world.” Bamboo, of course, had long been a synonym for things Asian.

词汇	bamboo curtain
词源	bamboo curtain. The bamboo curtain is a term suggested by the iron curtain that means a political and economic barrier between China and noncommunist countries. The policy came into effect when Mao Zedong (Tse-tung) cut China off from much of the free world after winning the Communist revolu- tion. The expression may have been invented at Time magazine, in which it was first recorded on March 14, 1949: “The Com- munist bosses of Peiping dropped a bamboo curtain cutting off Peiping from the world.” Bamboo, of course, had long been a synonym for things Asian.
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