
Bamboo curtain
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Bamboo curtain can mean:
- Literally, a type of beaded curtainCurtainA 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 CurtainBamboo CurtainThe 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