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32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Rise of Red Tourism in China

This year is the 100-year anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party. People are going to specific places that were important in the cultural revolution and sort of doing tourism in the party's history. Is this use of red coming back in Devogue? I mean, it was only popular among political regressives. Back in the 70s and 80s, there was like one regressive congressman referring to red China. It was Jesse Helms. Do you think that the use of red is coming back? I think so.

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