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- noun A
wall -mounted newspaper or similar, as apopular form ofcommunication inChina .
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Examples
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There were the dazibao , the giant-lettered, largely hand-made "big character" wall posters that signaled its beginning.
Masters of the Dark Arts Andrew Stuttaford 2011
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On May 25, a dazibao at Beijing University lambasted the university president and two close associates of Peng for suppressing political debate.
Kasama n3wday 2008
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20 B. Michael Frolic, Mao's People: Sixteen Portraits of Life in Revolutionary China, 1980, p. 21 In one dazibao, six mass representatives from the Beijing Municipal Revolutionary Committee asserted that the committee had not met in session for four years and that of the original 24 workers, only one remained on the committee.
Kasama n3wday 2008
jqr commented on the word dazibao
The Chinese word for signboard-mounted newspapers
June 26, 2009