Subject: Submission: Chinese Newspaper Terminology of the Late '60s
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 9/2/09, 19:38
To: readings@harpers.org
Sirs-
I'd like to submit the following list for your consideration. It's a series of terms I've pulled out of a 1971 booklet entitled Current Chinese Communist Newspaper Terms and Sayings, produced by Berkley's Center for Chinese Studies and apparently intended for the U.S. foreign policy community; my copy is stamped US GOVT PROP. The terms were all in regular use in Chinese publications and government documents, and all of them were either newly in use or new, revolutionary versions of established sayings.
I'm a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, Skeptic, The Huffington Post, and The Onion, and serve as director of communications Enlighten the Vote, a secular-oriented PAC. My first book, Flock of Dodos, was released in 2007.
Thanks,
Barrett Brown Brooklyn, NY 512-560-2302
well-fed and loafing around all day long
so nervous as to take every bush and tree as a soldier
people's communes are fine
goody-goody old men
behaving like thieves and prostitutes
rats scurrying across the street with everyone yelling: kill them! kill them!
scholars and beauties
the ministry of scholars and beauties
ants on the locust tree assume a great nation swagger
to rig up an anti-China ring
renegade clique
look upon agriculture as glory and joy
half-delirious music
to boast something in extravagant terms
like pathetic creatures weeping in a corner
thunderous applause resounded
high current water-cooled silicon-controlled rectifiers
with their faces suntanned, red hearts and a firm class stand
to criticize profoundly and thoroughly, and to criticize until our enemies collapse and stink
everyone knows about it and is overjoyed
like two clay idols crossing the river, both are in a precarious situation.
to conduct an ardent flirtation with; flirting more and more ardently
to create counter-revolutionary public opinion in a big way