Bamboo curtain

Bamboo curtain can mean:

Bamboo Curtain

The Bamboo Curtain was a colourful Cold War expression for the political demarcation between the Communist states of East Asia, particularly the People's Republic of China, and the capitalist and non-Communist states of the region. People in Asian Communist nations were said to be "behind the Bamboo Curtain." The term was derived from "Iron Curtain", a term used widely in Europe from the 1940s to the early '90s to refer to that region's Communist boundaries.

The term "Bamboo Curtain" was only rarely applied to the Korean Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea and the flexible Southeast Asia borders between Communism and the West (here referring to the forces aligned against Communism during the Cold War).

During the Cultural Revolution in China, the Chinese authorities put sections of the "curtain" under a lock-down of sorts, forbidding entry into or passage out of the country without permission from the Chinese government. Many would-be refugees attempting to flee to capitalist countries were prevented from escaping. Occasional relaxations led to several waves of refugees into the then-British crown colony of Hong Kong.