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slogan / catchphrase / CL: 個|个
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written slogan / placard / CL: , 張|张, 條|条
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model or template character / written slogan or phrase / mention (e.g. "air mail" 航空 on a letter, "first draft" 初稿 on a document etc)
Resist US, help North Korea (1950s slogan)
Manchurian Qing (refers to the Qing dynasty, esp. at its decline, or as an anti-Qing slogan)
Rectification or Rectifying incorrect work styles, Maoist slogan / cf Rectification campaign 整風運動|整风运动, army purge of 1942-44 and anti-rightist purge of 1957
to shout (slogans etc)
to sing loudly / fig. to mouth slogans
fight self-interest and repudiate revisionism (Cultural Revolution slogan)
motto / slogan
banner / horizontal slogan or advertisement
strong soldiers / make the military powerful (political slogan)
rich country / make the country wealthy (political slogan)
Serve the People!, CCP political slogan
to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)
dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucians (slogan of the Former Han dynasty)
Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese wartime slogan for their short-lived Pacific Empire, first enunciated by Prime Minister Prince KONOE Fumimaro 近衛文麿|近卫文麿 in 1938
a policy expressed as an eight-character slogan / (esp.) the eight-character slogan for the economic policy proposed by Li Fuchun 李富春 in 1961: 調整鞏固充實提高|调整巩固充实提高 "adjust, consolidate, enrich and improve"
the more knowledgeable, the more reactionary (absurd anti-intellectual slogan attributed after the event to the Gang of Four 四人幫|四人帮)
expel the Manchu, revolutionary slogan from around 1900
take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan) / keep what is good, discard the rest / You need to be selective when studying. / In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas.
lit. Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 and Cao Wei 曹魏 cannot coexist (idiom) / fig. two enemies cannot live under the same sky / (former KMT slogan against CCP) "gentlemen and thieves cannot coexist"
material and spiritual culture / matter and mind / material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978)
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
to shout / to bawl / to yell (to urge on an animal) / to hawk (one's wares) / to denounce loudly / to shout slogans
unity is strength (revolutionary slogan and popular song of 1943)
lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)
Support the Qing, annihilate the West! (Boxer rebellion slogan)
slogan banner
If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard. (Cultural Revolution slogan) / fig. like father, like son
a slogan used in reference to a project to improve greenery in some parts of Northern China


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