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Bamboo curtain   /bæmbˈu kˈərtən/   Listen
Bamboo curtain

noun
1.
An ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s.





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"Bamboo curtain" Quotes from Famous Books



... the critical moment—rolled. He was lying close by the garden door with his head queerly bent back against a broken and twisted rainwater pipe, an expression of pacific contentment on his face, a bamboo curtain rod with a tableknife tied to end of it, still gripped in his hand. We had been rapping for some time at the front door unable to make him hear, and then we came round by the door in the side trellis into the garden and ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells


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