Little red look: 100 years of Chinese Communist Party style
From Mao suits to Xi Jinping’s anorak
The Party is having a party. Who’s invited? About 1.4bn people. Is there a dress code? Not quite. In its centenary year, the Chinese Communist Party (ccp) has lost some of its zeal for sartorial regulations. As anyone with TikTok can see, the blue or khaki Mao suit is rather less in vogue now than the punky plaid minidress or flame-print bell bottoms. Is this ideological deviation? If we can conceive a turbo-capitalist, hypernationalist China administered under the red flag, we can imagine one that also tolerates 20-somethings in yellow tartan.
The date to save for the big bash is July 1st. (Though the party was actually formed on July 23rd 1921, in a fortnight-long congress that started in the French concession of Shanghai and ended on a tourist boat on Nanhu, a lake in the nearby city of Jiaxing.) Medals will be pinned on long-serving members. President Xi Jinping will orate. A mass wedding will give couples a chance to tie the knot with the ccp as well as with each other.
anorak
Line breaks: ano¦rak
Pronunciation: /ˈanərak/
Definition of anorak in English:
NOUN
1A waterproof jacket, typically with a hood, of a kind originally used in polar regions.
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2 British informal , derogatory A studious or obsessive person with unfashionable and largely solitary interests:with his thick specs, shabby shoes, and grey suit, he looks a bit of an anorak
"Anorak" /ˈænəræk/ is a British slang term which refers to a person who has a very strong interest, perhaps obsessive, in niche subjects. This interest may be unacknowledged or not understood by the general public. The term is sometimes used synonymously with "geek" or "nerd", the Spanish term "friki", or the Japanese term "otaku", albeit referring to different niches.
Origin1920s: from Greenlandic anoraq. The British English informal sense dates from the 1980s and derives from the anoraks worn by trainspotters, regarded as typifying this kind of person.
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