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Covid Variants? Insurrection Hearings? Tense Elections? Was "May You Live in Interesting Times" a Famous Chinese Curse?

4min2022 JUL 18
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Crikey. These are interesting times. But is “may you live in interesting times” actually an old Chinese curse, or is the history of that saying more complicated? We take you from Chinese folk tales in 1627 to 20th-century British politicians in this encore episode of Quote or No Quote, trying to track down who said what when. Listen and learn.

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