| 释义 |
‖ ta tzu-pao|daː dzəbau|
Also dazebao, dazibao, tatzepao, ta-tzu-pao.
[Chinese dàzìbào, f. dà big + zi character + bào newspaper, poster.]
In the People's Republic of China, a wall poster written in large characters that expresses a (political) opinion or other message.
The posting of ta tzu-pao is no longer encouraged in China.
1960Peking Rev. 5 Apr. 8/2 Criticism and self-criticism through large-scale airing of views and opinions, big debates and putting up dazibao (posters in large characters) are carried out in government and people's organizations. 1962E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xlviii. 368 Around the basketball court and a stage which prisoners had built were bulletin boards posted with ta tzu-pao such as you see before any Chinese factory: essays, rhymes, praise and mutual criticism, lists of model workers and their awards. 1967S. Knight Window on Shanghai lviii. 250 Four foreigners in Peking put up a ‘dazebao’ criticizing the treatment given us by the Chinese. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Feb. 10/2 A tatzepao (big-character poster) reproduced by the Shanghai newspaper claimed that the handful of party leaders now accused of being capitalist roaders exaggerated the role played by technical knowledge. 1973T. R. Tregear Chinese iii. 58 Walls everywhere were covered with ta-tzu-pao, big-character newspapers. 1979Globe & Mail (Toronto) 4 Apr. 1/2 Some students at Peking University told Western journalists that the repression was wrong as far as the poster or dazibao writers at Xidan democracy wall were concerned. |