the Bamboo Curtain

She plunged through the bamboo curtain at the far end and burst into the main work chamber.

Beyond the bamboo curtain that hung in the door leading to the living-room a light appeared.

She walked with him through the bamboo curtain and down the hall toward the main chamber of the dojo.

But while he was lavishing on it his best contempt, the bamboo curtain parted and the policemen came to him.

For fear that Sweetie's inclusion might have done us all a good turn by lifting the bamboo curtain to reveal - surprise!

Another hour or two would take them behind the Iron or the Bamboo Curtain.

After what seemed an eternity the bamboo curtain received her, she was through it, she was on the stairs.

From beyond the bamboo curtain leading to the lanai came the sound of men's voices, mumbling and indistinct.

The bamboo curtain parted, and Miss Minerva joined them.

"And so, away from Communist China, we are now on the right side of the bamboo curtain, and can breathe again," he wrote.

Pekin Man will emerge behind the bamboo curtain!

Then, wearying of his solitude, he approached the bamboo curtain at the entrance to Gioia's suite.

"Lifting the Bamboo Curtain." Retrieved February 2009 .

In Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the Cold War, ed.

She pushed on through the bamboo curtain and her hand - it trembled ever so slightly - found the electric switch and flooded the living-room with light.

Raise the Bamboo Curtain: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma (1996)

An analogue of the Iron Curtain, the Bamboo Curtain, surrounded the People's Republic of China.

The Church Behind the Bamboo Curtain: The Story of the Church Inside Red China.

On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces armed with Soviet weapons struck through the Bamboo Curtain to invade South Korea.

WITH chaperons and officials hovering around, these two young people from opposite sides of the bamboo curtain have apparently exchanged little more than fond glances and hopeful words.

In 1949 Chiang Kai-shek was beaten back to the island of Taiwan, Mao marched into Beijing, and the Bamboo Curtain fell.

The Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain, which had faced outward, had been replaced by Psionic Curtains facing inward.

Luang Prabang and other Laotian towns are becoming more accessible to Westerners, as the bamboo curtain gradually goes the way of the Iron Curtain.

Tears came into her eyes, and it was through a mist she saw the bamboo curtain that led into the hall pushed aside, and the thin white face of Amos framed there.

This was dubbed the "Cactus Curtain", an allusion to Europe's Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain in East Asia.