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Definition of Bamboo curtain
1. Noun. An ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bamboo Curtain
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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