Definitions
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- noun a
Chinese polearm with the blade mounted on top of the pole (as opposed to on the side like most European polearms).
Etymologies
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From Mandarin 关刀 (guāndāo, "Guan Yu's halberd")
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Examples
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In a process popularly called guandao ( "official turnaround"), officials would arrange to procure raw materials or commodities at the fixed price and then "turn around" to reap large illicit profits by selling on the private market.
A Great Leap Backward? Binyan, Liu 1998
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He Qinglian also shows how the plunder of state resources in the 1990s was several times as frenzied as the guandao of the 1980s had been.
A Great Leap Backward? Binyan, Liu 1998
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Popular protests against guandao had a modest effect in the late 1980s, at least until the suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen movement.
A Great Leap Backward? Binyan, Liu 1998
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