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Kāi Fàng: Loan words to the Middle Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Elizabeth-Anne Malischewski
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Abstract

ELIZABETH-ANNE MALISCHEWSKI describes how, through transliteration and adaptation, English words have been adopted into Chinese. The term KĀI FÀNG, whose characters are shown above, means ‘open-free’ and is used for Deng Xiao-ping's ‘open-door policy’.

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English Today , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 40 - 41
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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