411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Bamboo Curtain
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
bamboo curtain
English
Alternative forms
en bamboo curtain
Etymology
After en iron curtain, the original Cold War “curtain” (in Europe). First use appears in Time magazine in 1949.en 7 November 1949 Time https://web.archive.org/web/20130128121425/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801074,00.html CHINA: Behind the Bamboo Curtain
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bamboo Curtain.wav Southern England
Proper noun
1 bamboo curtain
en historical The political and ideological barrier between the communist and capitalist states of Asia during the Cold War.
en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-11-07_23_44/ November 7, 1982 ROC to aid joint security Free China Weekly XXIII 44 Taipei 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-11-07_23_44/ Gen. Wego Chiang, commander-in-chief of the Combined Service Forces, called on leaders of the free world to design an effective global strategy to safeguard world peace and to rescue the enslaved people behind the Bamboo Curtain.
en https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/09/lifting-the-bamboo-curtain/306945/ Lifting the Bamboo Curtain The Atlantic 2008 September Robert D. Kaplan “A new bamboo curtain may be coming down on Southeast Asia,” he worried. This would not be a hard-and-fast wall like the Iron Curtain; nor would it be part of some newly imagined Asian domino theory.
en https://archive.org/details/eyeonstruggleeth0000morr/ 2015 w:James McGrath Morris Eye on the Struggle Amistad (publishing) Amistad 978-0-06-219885-3 321 https://archive.org/details/eyeonstruggleeth0000morr/page/321/ As it had been for other Western reporters getting their first look behind the Bamboo Curtain, it was all a marvel for Payne. After all, here was a country that less than a quarter of a century ago had been destitute after three decades of revolutionary warfare.
Translations
political barrier between communist and capitalist in Asia
Belarusian: be Бамбукавая заслона
Burmese: my
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 竹幕 zhúmù
Danish: da Bambustæppet
Finnish: fi bambuesirippu
French: fr Rideau de bambou
Georgian: ka ბამბუკის ფარდა
Indonesian: id tirai bambu
Japanese: ja 竹のカーテン take no kāten
Javanese: jv ꦠꦶꦫꦲꦶꦧꦩ꧀ꦧꦸ
Khmer: km រនាំងឬស្សី rɔneaŋ rɨɨhsǝy
Korean: ko 죽의 장막 죽(竹)의 장막(帳幕)
Lao: lo
Malayalam: ml ബാംബൂ കർട്ടൻ
Mongolian: mn
Norwegian: no Bambusteppet
Persian: fa پردهی خیزرانی
Polish: pl Bambusowa kurtyna f
Portuguese: pt Cortina de Bambu f
Russian: ru Бамбуковый за́навес
Spanish: es Telón de Bambú m
Swedish: sv Bamburidån
Thai: th ม่านไม้ไผ่ mâan máai pài
Vietnamese: vi bức màn tre
See also
en bamboo ceiling
References
en Cold War