Phew... is it hot in here? Im turning red... The Chinese - TopicsExpress



          

Phew... is it hot in here? Im turning red... The Chinese literary critic Huang Ziping, in a memoir about everyday language in the early 1970s, gives us an interesting example... Remembering his years as a sent-down youth on Hainan island, he cites a love letter written by a friend who was trying to seduce a young woman. The letter consisted of three lines of text, each of which is quoted verbatim from Chairman Maos Quotations and Highest Directives: 1. Hailing from the five lakes and the four seas, for a common revolutionary aim, we come together. 2. We must share information. 3. We must first have a firm grasp, and second be attentive to politics. C.f. Andrew F. Jones Quotations songs: portable media and the Maoist pop song
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:00:08 +0000

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