Definition of Bamboo curtain

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

Generic synonyms: Ideological Barrier

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bamboo Curtain

balywicks
bam
bam island
bambakion
bambakions
bambermycins
bambini
bambino
bambinos
bambocciade
bambocciades
bambocciante
bambollaite
bamboo
bamboo antshrike
bamboo curtain (current term)
bamboo fern
bamboo palm
bamboo partridge
bamboo shoot
bamboo shoots
bamboo spine
bamboo wife
bamboo wives
bambooed
bambooing
bamboolike
bamboos
bamboozingly

Literary usage of Bamboo curtain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1910)
"Asking for explanation, I was told this: The peculiarity of the bamboo curtain is that it prevents any one outside from seeing into the house, ..."

2. The Home Maker by Jane Cunningham Croly (1889)
"Outside the bamboo curtain hangs a pair of portières made of coffee sacking, decorated with rings of plush and fringes of Chinese coins. ..."

3. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"The peculiarity of the bamboo curtain is that it prevents any one outside from seeing into the house, while those inside the house can see through it very ..."

4. Carpentry and Building (1908)
"It should be so built that by means of the useful bamboo curtain it can be screened Into a certain privacy ; here she can have her work table, ..."

5. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1909)
"bamboo curtain—design, construct and apply color scheme previously worked out. Or Letter motto on the border sheets and apply color scheme previously worked ..."

6. Accounting for Pow/Mias from the Korean War and the Vietnam War: Hearing edited by Robert K. Dornan (1998)
"... ultimatum threatening the use of force to gain the release of American POWs from the gulags behind the Iron Curtain and the bamboo curtain that had come ..."

7. Our Neighbors: The Chinese by Joseph King Goodrich (1913)
"In such cases the women of the family and their invited friends would witness the play through a bamboo curtain hung at one side of the courtyards. ..."

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