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dazibao

Noun

Meaning

dazibao (plural dazibaos or dazibao)

A wall-mounted newspaper or similar, used as a form of protest, propaganda, and popular communication in China.
Synonym: big-character poster

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

According to Shen, the trigger for the famous Tiananmen hunger-strikes of 1989 was a big-character poster ( dazibao ), a form of public political discussion that gained prominence during the Cultural Revolution. Source: Internet

Mao promptly endorsed Nie's dazibao as "the first Marxist big-character poster in China." Source: Internet

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