Bamboo curtain
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Bamboo curtain can mean:
  • Literally, a type of beaded curtain
    Curtain
    A curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, or drafts, or water in the case of a shower curtain. Curtains hung over a doorway are known as portières...

     made from bamboo
  • Figuratively, the Bamboo Curtain
    Bamboo Curtain
    The Bamboo Curtain was a euphemism for the east Asian version of the Iron Curtain. As a physical boundary, it was marked by the borders around the Communist states of East Asia, in particular those of the People's Republic of China that were shared with non-Communist nations, during the Cold War...

    , the Asian equivalent of the Iron Curtain
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