{"id":164662,"date":"2013-10-30T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=164662"},"modified":"2013-10-30T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T19:31:19","slug":"quote-week-ma-de-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/10\/quote-week-ma-de-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Week: “Ma de” in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ma de in China: \u201cf**k\u201d in China<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cropped photos of Taiwanese prune beverage company \u963f\u5988\u7684\u9178\u6885\u6c64 (\u0100m\u0101de<\/em> su\u0101nme\u00edt\u0101ng) storefronts have been a hit on web forums. (Tiexue)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u5988\u7684 (m\u0101de) is short for\u00a0\u4ed6\u5988\u7684 (t\u0101m\u0101de)<\/a>.\u00a0Lu Xun<\/a>, the father of modern Chinese literature, once\u00a0honored the phrase as China\u2019s \u201cnational swearword\u201d<\/a>\u00a0[zh]. Literally meaning \u201chis mother\u2019s,\u201d The term is a versatile expletive roughly equivalent to \u201cdamn\u201d or \u201cfuck\u201d in English.\u00a0Sinosplice<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0provides a detailed explanation of the term\u2019s proper usage.<\/p>\n

The pinyin used to transliterate the abbreviation closely resembles the first word on the\u00a0English-language country of origin label so globally ubiquitous<\/a>\u00a0in the years that followed China\u2019s economic reform.<\/p>\n

Netizens write \u201cMa de in China\u201d to express disgust at something the Chinese government has done. For example, someone may post a comment on their microblog that a certain website has been blocked, and someone will respond in the comment section, \u201cMa de in China!\u201d Or someone might sarcastically say that the\u00a0World Expo<\/a>\u00a0was \u201cMa de in China!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"grass-mud<\/a>Which words define the Chinese Internet? Our\u00a0eBook<\/a>\u00a0includes 71 classic turns of phrase. Now available from\u00a0Kindle<\/a>,\u00a0iTunes<\/a>, and\u00a0Google Play<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Word of the Week<\/a>\u00a0comes from China Digital Space\u2019s\u00a0Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon<\/a>, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China\u2019s online \u201cresistance discourse,\u201d used to mock and subvert the official language around\u00a0censorship<\/a>\u00a0and political correctness.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ma de in China: \u201cf**k\u201d in China \u5988\u7684 (m\u0101de) is short for\u00a0\u4ed6\u5988\u7684 (t\u0101m\u0101de).\u00a0Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, once\u00a0honored the phrase as China\u2019s \u201cnational swearword\u201d\u00a0[zh]. Literally meaning \u201chis mother\u2019s,\u201d The term is a versatile expletive roughly equivalent to \u201cdamn\u201d or \u201cfuck\u201d in English.\u00a0Sinosplice\u00a0provides a detailed explanation of the term\u2019s proper usage. The pinyin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":164663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,2,14748,14744,5,4202],"tags":[2726,15153],"class_list":["post-164662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-economy","category-gmh","category-level-2-article","category-society","category-translation","tag-made-in-china","tag-word-of-the-week","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nQuote of the Week: "Ma de" in China<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/10\/quote-week-ma-de-china\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Week: "Ma de" in China\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ma de in China: \u201cf**k\u201d in China \u5988\u7684 (m\u0101de) is short for\u00a0\u4ed6\u5988\u7684 (t\u0101m\u0101de).\u00a0Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, once\u00a0honored the phrase as China\u2019s \u201cnational swearword\u201d\u00a0[zh]. 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