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May you live in interesting times
THE phrase above is often interpreted as a Chinese curse. In Western literature, it represents a period of turmoil, anxiety ...
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Ksenia Samotiy: The big challenge for anyone in their 20s today is adapting to whatever ‘interesting times’ come next
Photo: Getty ‘May you [be cursed to] live in interesting times’ goes a Chinese proverb that is in fact neither Chinese nor a proverb. You probably think this is another column about the war in ...
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May you live in interesting times
"MAY you live in interesting times," according to Sir Austen Chamberlain in 1936, was a curse of supposed Chinese origin. This information was shared to him by a seasoned British diplomat stationed in ...
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May you not live in interesting times
in which case there may be something to the claim that 'May you live in interesting times' is an ancient Chinese curse. Oddly enough, the Chinese disown this phrase, putting forward a proverb ...