bamboo curtain

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   an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s

   Broaderideological barrier

Questions about bamboo curtain

What does bamboo curtain mean?

bamboo curtain means "an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s".

Is bamboo curtain a common word?

bamboo curtain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.