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Kāi Fàng: Loan words to the Middle Kingdom
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2008
Abstract
ELIZABETH-ANNE MALISCHEWSKI describes how, through transliteration and adaptation, English words have been adopted into Chinese. The term KĀI FÀNG, whose characters are shown above, means ‘open-free’ and is used for Deng Xiao-ping's ‘open-door policy’.
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