An anatomy of Chinese : rhythm, metaphor, politics / Perry Link.

During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to "smash the four olds": old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted "We want to see Chairman Mao," they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates ba...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author:	Link, Perry, 1944-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Andere Sprachen. Chinese language > Terms and phrases. Chinese language > Metaphors. Chinese language > Rhythm. Chinese language > Semantics. Chinese language. Terms and phrases.