Word: cussword
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...used his blue pencil, because even pai-hua is too discursive for occidental taste. Open-eyed readers of Living China will find these stories queerly human, may be surprised to find many of them bitter, strong, ironic stuff. Because they are written in pai-hua, China's national cussword appears frequently. A mild-seeming expression, "his mother's" (shortened form of "rape your mother") is apparently used to express any shade of any emotion...