[Ads-l] sheng nu

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Thu Apr 30 15:54:01 UTC 2015


Here's an antedating by one year:

05 September 2009: http://bit.ly/1GKzceE
Qiu Yijiao (China Daily)
Leftover ladies
"The social phenomenon of Chinese single women is wonderfully explained 
in The Leftover Lady (Sheng Nu Lang), which is now playing at the 
Beijing Oriental Pioneer Theater. "

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> Benjamin Barrett <mailto:gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
> April 29, 2015 at 10:20 PM
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> Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sheng_nu#English) has "sheng
> nu" citations back to 2010. I don't see it on the Oxford Dictionary site.
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