MCLC: The coming Chinese crackup (11)

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The coming Chinese crackup (11)
Perhaps it doesn’t qualify as a proverb, but search engines return plenty of hits for the phrase applied in a concrete sense to such things as fruit, nuts, baked goods, or shellfish.  A contrast between internal and external conditions lends itself readily to this four-character format, and though I can’t cite anyone but Prof. Shambaugh for that use of this phrase, in Chapter 47 of Hu Fayun’s 如焉 the words 内紧外松 are applied to the deceptive appearance of normality that prevailed in the early phases of the SARS epidemic.
A. E. Clark <aec at raggedbanner.com>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on March 23, 2015
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