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  • skeletorsass [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    "Government in exile"

    They found a way to have even less legitimacy than Guaido.

    Also surely someone running this thing recognizes the connotation of the phrase 新中国, right?

      • skeletorsass [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        The term is usually used to refer to specifically the revolutionary, post-1949 China and especially the Mao era, and is common in red songs and slogans, especially during the life of Chairman Mao.

      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        it's hard to translate directly into English because there's a lot of nuance that westerners aren't culturally prepared for, but a rough approximation would be something along the lines of "pig poop balls"

      • 420clownpeen [they/them,any]
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        4 years ago

        Seems to literally mean New China, but idk much Chinese history, so idk what connotation they mean

        • RindlessWatermelon [they/them,he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It'd be kinda like making a Russian "government in exile", calling it the "united super sexy russians" and asking people to refer to it as the USSR.

        • VYKNIGHT [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          "New China" almost always refers to communist China post 1949, its used in so much propaganda its pretty much ubiquitous with the communism nowadays

        • skeletorsass [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          The term is usually used to refer to specifically the revolutionary, post-1949 China and especially the Mao era, and is common in red songs and slogans, especially during the life of Chairman Mao.

      • skeletorsass [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        中国(Zhōngguó) technically would mean something like that if you look at the characters on their own, but together they are one of the names of China.

        新中国(xīn Zhōngguó,New China) is a term that usually has Communist connotations in modern political use, and was common in red songs and party slogans.