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Ma de in China: “fuck” in China [[FILE:made.jpg|250px|thumb|right|''Cropped photos of Taiwanese prune beverage company 阿妈的酸梅汤 (Ā'''māde''' suānmeítāng) storefronts have been a hit on web forums. (Tiexue)'']]

妈的 (māde) is short for [[WTF?!|他妈的 (tāmāde)]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun Lu Xun], the father of modern Chinese literature, once [http://baike.baidu.com/view/3687761.htm honored the phrase as China’s “national swearword”] [zh]. Literally meaning “his mother’s,” The term is a versatile expletive roughly equivalent to “damn” or “fuck” in English. [http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2011/06/14/on-reducing-tmd-syntactic-ambiguity Sinosplice] provides a detailed explanation of the term’s proper usage.

The pinyin used to transliterate the abbreviation closely resembles the first word on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_china English-language country of origin label so globally ubiquitous] in the years that followed China’s economic reform.

Netizens write “Ma de in China” to express disgust at something the Chinese government has done. For example, someone may post a comment on their microblog that a certain website has been blocked, and someone will respond in the comment section, “Ma de in China!” Or someone might sarcastically say that the [[SB Conference| World Expo]] was “Ma de in China!”

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